Stories for 2007-12-19

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In this issue:
    * Perl 5.10.0 torrent
    * Rafa&#235;l officially releases Perl 5.10.0
    * Parrot 0.5.1
    * Winter of Code: Call for proposals: Manage TODO Tests
    * Parrot released, perl6 passes sanity tests again,
    * New CPAN Distributions for December 18, 2007

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| Perl 5.10.0 torrent                                                |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday December 18, @11:46 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/1836229              |
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Perl 5.10.0 is out real soon now. If you don't want to wait for the
mirrors to catch up and official announcement, you can [0]get it now via
BitTorrent.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/1836229

Links:
    0. http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3938859


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| Rafa&#235;l officially releases Perl 5.10.0                        |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday December 18, @14:25 (Releases)  |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/195247               |
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[0]brian_d_foy writes "[1]Rafael posted to Perl 5 Porters that he's
released 5.10.0, and [2]acme reports that there is a torrent file for the
impatient. See [3]perldelta for the changes.

Happy Perling!"

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/195247

Links:
    0. mailto:[email protected]
    1. http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/111bfa7e2b0c75ee
    2. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/1836229&tid=34
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod


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| Parrot 0.5.1                                                       |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday December 18, @17:21 (Parrot)    |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/222247               |
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On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.5.1
"Hatachi." [0]Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic
languages.

Parrot 0.5.1 can be obtained via [1]CPAN (soon), or [2]follow the
download instructions. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or
help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using [3]Subversion or [4]SVK on
[5]our source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Parrot 0.5.1 News:

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/222247

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/222247

Links:
    0. http://parrotcode.org/
    1. http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot
    2. http://parrotcode.org/source.html
    3. http://subversion.tigris.org/
    4. http://svk.bestpractical.com/
    5. https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/


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| Winter of Code: Call for proposals: Manage TODO Tests              |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday December 18, @17:23 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/228222               |
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We have finally managed to come up with [0]decision criteria and a bit
more [1]detailed specs for the Vienna Perl Mongers "Winter of Code".

Please note that we're operating on a very tight schedule and thus have
set the deadline for proposals to December 12, 23:59 CET. Please read
[2]submissions guidelines for more information on how to submit a
proposal. Send your proposals to [3][email protected]

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/228222

Links:
    0. http://socialtext.useperl.at/woc/index.cgi?management_system_for_todo_test_bounties
    1. http://socialtext.useperl.at/woc/index.cgi?todo_management_system_specs
    2. http://socialtext.useperl.at/woc/index.cgi?todo_management_system_submission_guideline
    3. mailto:[email protected]


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| Parrot released, perl6 passes sanity tests again,                  |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Tuesday December 18, @17:30 (Perl 6)    |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/2213209              |
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Happy birthday, Perl!

On this 20th birthday of Perl, I'd like to express my appreciation to
Larry Wall (and his family) for the many years of leadership, dedication,
wit, wisdom, and sacrifice that he has put into Perl. Of course, there
are many more people who deserve our thanks for Perl, too many to list
here, but Larry has always been a fixture of the community and I'm so
thankful for his efforts.

Today Parrot 0.5.1 (Hatachi) was released, and quite frankly it's another
big leap in Parrot and Perl 6 development. So much has happened since my
last journal post of a week ago that it's hard to know where to begin!
The big news is that as of today the perl6 compiler is once again passing
all of the 00-parrot and 01-sanity tests, so we can begin attacking the
official test suite again. In other news:

* Jerry Gay made even more progress on the Punie (Perl 1) compiler under
Parrot, using PCT and NQP he managed to get slurpy arguments working, and
all of the tests passing. To me this is a signature achievement, and it
shows that the compiler tools (PCT, PAST, and NQP) are working as we had
intended.

* Jerry has also been instrumental in getting perl6 to pass its test
suites again, particularly in adding constructs to the grammar, including
"for", regexes, "END", and the like. So, we're passing the basic test
suite again.

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/2213209

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/2213209


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| New CPAN Distributions for December 18, 2007                       |
|   posted by pudge on Tuesday December 18, @18:30 (Module Listings) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/1530209              |
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  * [0]App-Addex-0.013 -- generate mail tool configuration from an
    address book
  * [1]Bundle-Graphics-ColorNames-1.04 -- bundle of schemas for
    Graphics::ColorNames
  * [2]CGI-Application-Server-0.050 -- A simple HTTP server for
    developing with CGI::Application
  * [3]Cache-FastMmap-Tie-0.00_01 -- Using Cache::FastMmap as hash
  * [4]Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.05 -- Perl client for memcached, in C
    language
  * [5]Class-Component-0.09 -- pluggable component framework
  * [6]Class-Dot-2.0.0_06 -- Simple and fast properties for Perl 5.
  * [7]Class-Dot-2.0.0_07 -- Simple and fast properties for Perl 5.
  * [8]EV-1.86 -- perl interface to libev, a high performance
    full-featured event loop
  * [9]Graphics-ColorNames-Crayola-1.00 -- the original 48 crayola crayon
    colors
  * [10]HTML-Tiny-1.01 -- Lightweight, dependency free HTML/XML
    generation
  * [11]HTTP-Proxy-GreaseMonkey-0.04 -- Run GreaseMonkey scripts in any
    browser
  * [12]IPC-Cmd-Cached-0.01 -- Run expensive commands and cache their
    output
  * [13]Mail-SpamCannibal-0.86 -- A tool to stop SPAM
  * [14]Microarray-0.32 -- A Perl module for creating and manipulating
    microarray objects
  * [15]Music-Audioscrobbler-MPD-0.05 -- Module providing routines to
    submit songs to last.fm from MPD.
  * [16]Net-Amazon-0.47 -- Framework for accessing amazon.com via REST
  * [17]POE-Component-Client-NSCA-0.04 -- a POE Component that implements
    send_nsca functionality
  * [18]POE-Loop-Glib-0.0030 -- a bridge that supports Glib's event loop
    from POE
  * [19]POE-Loop-Glib-0.0031 -- a bridge that supports Glib's event loop
    from POE
  * [20]Parse-Marpa-0.001_056 -- (pre-Alpha) Jay Earley's general parsing
    algorithm, with LR(0) precomputation
  * [21]Perl-Install-0.01
  * [22]Pod-Advent-0.01 -- POD Formatter for The Perl Advent Calendar
  * [23]Pod-Advent-0.02 -- POD Formatter for The Perl Advent Calendar
  * [24]Spreadsheet-Engine-0.05 -- Core calculation engine for a
    spreadsheet
  * [25]Test-XML-Order-0.06 -- Compare the order of XML tags in perl
    tests
  * [26]Test-XML-Order-0.07 -- Compare the order of XML tags in perl
    tests
  * [27]Text-GooglewikiFormat-0.01 -- The great new
    Text::GooglewikiFormat!
  * [28]WebService-EveOnline-0.03 -- a wrapper intended to (eventually)
    provide a consistent interface to the MMORPG game, "Eve Online"
  * [29]XHTML-Instrumented-0.06 -- packages to control XHTML
  * [30]XHTML-Instrumented-0.07 -- packages to control XHTML
  * [31]parrot-0.5.1
  * [32]perl-5.10.0 -- Practical Extraction and Report Language
  * [33]self-0.13 -- Provides "self" and "args" keywords in your OO
    program.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/18/1530209

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/App-Addex-0.013
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~rrwo/Bundle-Graphics-ColorNames-1.04
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/CGI-Application-Server-0.050
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~suzuki/Cache-FastMmap-Tie-0.00_01
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~kroki/Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.05
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~yappo/Class-Component-0.09
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~asksh/Class-Dot-2.0.0_06
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~asksh/Class-Dot-2.0.0_07
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/EV-1.86
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~rrwo/Graphics-ColorNames-Crayola-1.00
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/HTML-Tiny-1.01
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/HTTP-Proxy-GreaseMonkey-0.04
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/IPC-Cmd-Cached-0.01
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~miker/Mail-SpamCannibal-0.86
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~cjones/Microarray-0.32
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~ealleniii/Music-Audioscrobbler-MPD-0.05
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~boumenot/Net-Amazon-0.47
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-Client-NSCA-0.04
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~martijn/POE-Loop-Glib-0.0030
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~martijn/POE-Loop-Glib-0.0031
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Parse-Marpa-0.001_056
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~rkinyon/Perl-Install-0.01
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~davidrw/Pod-Advent-0.01
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~davidrw/Pod-Advent-0.02
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Spreadsheet-Engine-0.05
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~gam/Test-XML-Order-0.06
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~gam/Test-XML-Order-0.07
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/Text-GooglewikiFormat-0.01
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~chrisc/WebService-EveOnline-0.03
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~gam/XHTML-Instrumented-0.06
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~gam/XHTML-Instrumented-0.07
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~jonathan/parrot-0.5.1
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/self-0.13



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