Parrot 1.0.0 "Haru Tatsu" Released!

[François Perrad]

2009/3/18 Allison Randal <allison at parrot.org>:
>  You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
>  A place that has to be believed to be seen
>  You could have flown away
>  A singing bird in an open cage
>  Who will only fly, only fly for freedom...
>
>  What you've got they can't deny it
>  Can't sell it, can't buy it
>  Walk on...
>
>  -- U2, "Walk On"
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.0.0
> "Haru Tatsu." Parrot[1] is a virtual machine aimed at running all
> dynamic languages.
>

As usual, the Windows setup is available on
http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/
with add-ons for many languages.

François.

> Parrot 1.0.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site[2], or follow the
> download instructions[3]. For those who would like to develop on Parrot,
> or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion[4] on our
> source code repository[5] to get the latest and best Parrot code.
>
> Parrot 1.0.0 News:
> - Documentation
>  + New user documentation for exceptions.
>  + Updates to Chapters 4 & 5 of the Parrot book.
>  + Improved and expanded generated HTML documentation, as the input for
>    http://docs.parrot.org.
>  + Added Compiled HTML Help (.chm) version of documentation.
>  + Cleanups and fixes.
> - Languages
>  + Pynie
>    - left the nest and is now at http://pynie.googlecode.com/
>  + Cardinal
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/cardinal
>  + APL
>    - left the nest and is now at http://paraplegic.googlecode.com/
>  + ABC, Squaak, and Befunge moved to examples/.
>  + All remaining languages moved to https://svn.parrot.org/languages/
> - Tools
>  + Support for language builds from an installed Parrot.
>  + Expanded language shell generator for new languages.
>  + 'parrotbug' utility repurposed for the Trac interface.
> - Deprecations
>  + Removed deprecated Tqueue and Closure PMCs.
>  + String, Key, NCI, LexPad, Iterator, Sub, Continuation,
>    RetContinuation, ExceptionHandler, ParrotLibrary, ParrotInterpreter,
>    ParrotThread, ParrotRunningThread, Rational, FixedPMCArray,
>    ResizablePMCArray, and GDBMHash PMCs now use declared attributes
>    (ATTR), in place of the deprecated UnionVal.
>
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
> sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 21
> April 2009.
>
>
> References
>
>   1. http://parrot.org/
>   2. ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/stable/1.0.0/
>   3. http://parrot.org/download
>   4. http://subversion.tigris.org/
>   5. https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk/
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