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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #22 ("Thousand Oaks") | ||
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce | ||
the October 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #22 "Thousand Oaks". | ||
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. | ||
The tarball for the October 2009 release is available from | ||
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . | ||
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Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent | ||
addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudo | ||
from the latest source, available from the main repository at github. | ||
More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo. | ||
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Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named | ||
after a Perl Mongers group. October 2009 is code named "Thousand Oaks" for the | ||
their amazing Perl 6 hackathon, and their report at | ||
http://www.lowlevelmanager.com/2009/09/perl-6-hackathon.html . | ||
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Since the 2009-08 release, Rakudo Perl builds from an "installed | ||
Parrot" instead of using Parrot's build tree. This release of Rakudo | ||
requires Parrot 1.7.0. For the latest information on building and | ||
using Rakudo Perl, see the README file section titled "Building and | ||
invoking Rakudo". (Quick note: the "--gen-parrot" option still | ||
automatically downloads and builds Parrot as before, if you prefer | ||
that approach.) | ||
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Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6" | ||
(or "perl6.exe") executables only work when invoked from the | ||
Rakudo root directory until a "make install" is performed. | ||
Running "make install" will install Rakudo and its libraries | ||
into the Parrot installation that was used to build it, and then | ||
the executables will work when invoked from any directory. | ||
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For this release we focused on a new signature binder which makes | ||
calling routines and operators much faster,a and allows binding of | ||
positional arguments by name. | ||
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Some of the specific major changes and improvements occuring | ||
with this release include: | ||
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* Rakudo is now passing XX,XXX spectests, an increase of XX,XXX | ||
passing tests since the September 2009 release. With this release | ||
Rakudo is now passing XX.X% of the available spectest suite. | ||
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* Rakudo now supports accessing outer lexical variables from classes and | ||
packages. | ||
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* Complex numbers are now implemented as a Perl 6 class, and supports all | ||
trigonometric functions from the specification. | ||
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* Some new variants of the series operator are now implemented. | ||
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for | ||
making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute, | ||
see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org | ||
mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. | ||
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The next release of Rakudo (#23) is scheduled for November 19, 2009. | ||
A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is | ||
available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo | ||
development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each | ||
Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. | ||
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Have fun! | ||
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References: | ||
[1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/ |