# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #51864] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=51864 >
The patch for https://svn.perl.org/perl.org/docs/live/parrotcode, announcing Parrot 0.6.0, is attached. Regards, Bernhard
Index: index.html =================================================================== --- index.html (Revision 1288) +++ index.html (Arbeitskopie) @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ [% END %] -<h2>Parrot 0.5.3 "Way of the Parrot" Released</h2> +<h2>Parrot 0.6.0 "Way of the Parrot" Released</h2> -<p>On 21 February 2008, Patrick R. Michaud released Parrot 0.5.3. See the <a -href="news/2008/Parrot-0.5.3.html">Parrot 0.5.3 release announcement</a> for -more details or <a href="/release/devel">download Parrot 0.5.3</a> from the +<p>On March 18th 2008, Bernhard Schmalhofer released Parrot 0.6.0. See the <a +href="news/2008/Parrot-0.6.0.html">Parrot 0.6.0 release announcement</a> for +more details or <a href="/release/devel">download Parrot 0.6.0</a> from CPAN.</p> <h2><tt>#parrot</tt> now logged</h2> Index: news/2008/Parrot-0.6.0.html =================================================================== --- news/2008/Parrot-0.6.0.html (Revision 0) +++ news/2008/Parrot-0.6.0.html (Revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +[% page.title = 'Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P" Released' %] +[% page.style = "default.html" %] + +<h1>Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P" Released</h1> + +<p>18 March 2008</p> + +<p> +On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.0 +"P&P". <a href="http://parrotcode.org/";>Parrot</a> +is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. +</p> + +<p> +Parrot 0.6.0 can be obtained via <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot";>CPAN</a> +(soon), or <a href="http://parrotcode.org/source.html";>follow the download instructions</a>. +For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, +we recommend using <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/";>Subversion</a> +or <a href="http://svk.bestpractical.com/";>SVK</a> +on <a href="https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/";>our source code repository</a> +to get the latest and best Parrot code.</p> + +<p>Parrot 0.6.0 News:<br/> +<pre>- Specification + + launched pdd18_security.pod + + updated pdd17_pmc.pod + + launching draft of pdd28_character_sets.pod +- Documentation + + cleanup of IMCC documentation +- Configuration + + add step auto::gettext + + add step auto::crypto +- Compilers + + PCT: + . Fix '-e' option + . Phase out P6Regex in favor of Perl6Regex + + IMCC: + '.local Array my_arr' is illegal now +- Languages + + C99: reimplementation with PCT + + lolcode: + . various updates + . add support for functions with params + . add math functions + + Rakudo: + . support for 'say' + . first cut at smart matching + . indirect method calls + . support for Pairs + . added methods 'grep' and 'first' + . implement auto{increment,decrement} + . initial implementation of 'perl6doc' + + Lua: + . various updates + . add base64 library + + Cardinal: basic support for functions with parameters + + Pheme: various updates + + Ecmascript: various updates + + Tcl: now targeting tcl 8.5.1, no more expected failures in test suite. + (No, this doesn't mean everything's implemented. =-) + + Eclectus: various updates + + WMLScript: various updates +- Implementation + + PDD17 (PMCs) + + Add library YAML::Dumper + + Add the MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA & SHA1 PMC, as a wrapper + around libcrypto +- Miscellaneous + + various bugfixes, code cleanups and coding standard fixes + + consting + + remove external Perl 5 modules from the Parrot distribution +</pre></p> + +<p>The next scheduled Parrot release will be on April 15th 2008.</p> + +<p>Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our +sponsors for supporting this project.</p> + +<p>Enjoy!</p> +
