Re: Parrot 0.8.1 "Tio Richie" Released!

chromatic a écrit :
>    On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.1 "Tio
>    Richie." [1]  Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic
>    languages.
> 

As usual, the Windows setup is available on 
http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/

François.

>      Rat Creature #1: Comrade! We are about to feast! Quick, get your fat
>      carcass behind this bush and get ready!
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: Hello, small mammal.... Could you step in here for
>      a moment? I've got something to show you....
> 
>      Fone Bone: Can't you show me out here, where I've got runnin' space?
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: No! No! Please! Step in here -- your friend the
>      dragon isn't around, is he?
> 
>      Fone Bone: Hey, Ted! Where you goin'?
> 
>      Ted: You're on yer own, Bone! (exit stage left)
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: Quick, comrade! Start the cooking fire!
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: No. You called me fat.
> 
>      Fone Bone: Ted! Wait for me!
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: (pulls Bone into the bush) Well, well... Look who's
>      joined us for supper... Go start the cooking fire!!
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: No. You called me fat.
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: No?!!! What do you mean, no?!!!
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: And it's not the first time you've done it
>      either....
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: Comrade... be reasonable! I wasn't thinking -- I
>      was trying to catch our dinner -- this isn't the time -- I take it
>      back.... you're not fat.
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: Too late!
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the
>      stew!
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: And that's another thing. I'm tired of stew! I want
>      to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: Quiche?! What kind of food is that for a monster to
>      eat?! .... Listen, do you think you could come back in half an hour?
>      We'll have this straightened out by then!
> 
>      Bone: (runs away)
> 
>      Rat Creature #1: (beat) Why didn't you stop me?
> 
>      Rat Creature #2: Why should I? You're so smart!
> 
>      time passes
> 
>      Fone Bone: (hanging from a branch in a waterfall) Those rat
>      creatures would have to be pretty stupid to follow me on to this
>      frail, little branch!
> 
>      Rat Creatures: (follow Bone on to the frail, little branch)
> 
>      Fone Bone: Stupid, stupid rat creatures!! (branch breaks)
> 
>      -- "Bone", by Jeff Smith
> 
>    Parrot 0.8.1 is available via CPAN (soon [2]). You may also see the Parrot
>    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.
> 
>    Please note the updated Parrot Roadmap [6] and our goals leading to the 1.0
>    release.
> 
>    Parrot 0.8.1 News:
> - Implementation
>   + added CPAN module Storable 2.12 as a configuration and build dependency
>   + removed the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr'
>   + added the 'box' opcode
>   + fixed 'pop_eh' handling in PIR libraries and examples
>   + removed usage of .return for tailcalls (use .tailcall instead)
>   + removed 'get_hash' and 'get_array' from Capture PMC and Capture_PIR
>   + improved debugger and HLL coordination
>   + allowed MMD primitive autoboxing
>   + fixed all known memory leaks in PIR "Hello, world!"
>   + NCI signatures now JITted on x86-32 platforms (Windows and Linux)
>   + made the .const directive take a quoted type name instead of a constant
>   + made IMCC more re-entrant
> - Languages
>   + Rakudo
>     - refactored Junctions implementation
>     - added "fire and forget" tool to rebase/rebuild/test Parrot and Rakudo
>     - updated container/reference semantics
>     - added more builtin methods and functions
>     - improved support for multilevel namespaces
>     - added support for .Str, .succ, .pred in user-defined classes
>     - implemented pointy blocks on if/loops
>     - increased STD.pm convergence
>     - added %*VM hash
>     - improved MMD candidate sorting
>     - improved integration of Num and Int
>     - implemented increment on protoobjects
>     - added initial support for MAIN subs
>     - added .PARROT method
>   + Pipp
>     - added some predefined constants.
>     - added implemention of the function basename().
>   + Cardinal (Ruby)
>     - Added initial support for the classes Proc, Continuation, Queue, Dir, 
> File
> , and FileStat
>     - fixed various minor bugs
>     - fixed broken Regexes
> - Compilers
>   + PCT
>     - added '.isa' method to PCT::Node
>     - cleaned up 'immediate block' handling
>     - allowed arguments to immediate blocks in loops/conditionals
>     - metaclass objects can now 'add_method'
>   + PIRC
>     - integrated macro processing in PIRC's lexer
>     - integrated heredoc lexer in PIRC executable
>     - added preprocess and heredoc-preprocess commandline options
>     - integrated the PASM grammar into PIRC
>     - added a register allocator to optimize the built-in vanilla allocator
>     - code cleanups and documentation
>     - added 'make test' target
>    + TGE
>     - updated to work with new namespace/classname syntax
> - Deprecations
>   + PARROT_API will become PARROT_EXPORT
>   + :lexid will become :subid
> - Miscellaneous
>   + Documentation
>     - updates and additions to the Parrot book (see docs/book/)
>   + OpenGL
>     - minor fixes to Parrot's base OpenGL bindings
>     - converted OpenGL PIR examples to Perl 6 (two complete, one WIP)
>     - added simplified OpenGL PIR example for NCI JIT testing
>   + Tests
>     - further improvements to parallel tests
>     - tests no longer leave filesystem breadcrumbs
> 
>    Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
>    sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 16 Dec 2008.
> 
>    Enjoy!
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://parrotcode.org/
>    2. http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot
>    3. http://parrotcode.org/source.html
>    4. http://subversion.tigris.org/
>    5. https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/
>    6. https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ParrotRoadmap
> 
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