Congrats team! One dumb question; why is the total number of tests only an estimate? Seems like something easily counted?
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Solomon Foster <colo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the > May 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #29 "Erlangen". > Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine > (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the May 2010 release > is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . > > Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named > after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2010 release is code named > "Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk that Moritz > Lenz, one of our core developers, gave this month. > > Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this > release include: > > * Lexical classes and roles were implemented. Additionally, anonymous classes > -- which were never quite right in alpha -- are now implemented more > correctly, and anonymous roles are also supported. > > * Basic support for named enumerations of the form 'enum Weekday <Monday > Tuesday ...>' has been restored. > > * First cut of use Foo:from<perl5> and eval('foo', :lang<perl5>); needs > Blizkost[1] to be installed to work. > > * Numeric / Real roles much closer to the spec now. > > * As always, many additional small features and bug fixes make working with > Rakudo more pleasant. > > * Rakudo now passes 32,347 spectests. We estimate that there are about > 39,500 tests in the test suite, so Rakudo passes about 82% of all tests. > > For a more detailed list of changes see "docs/ChangeLog". > > The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for > making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on parrot, the > Perl 6 test suite and the specification. > > The following people contributed to this release: > Solomon Foster, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Worthington, Martin Berends, > chromatic, Carl Masak, snarkyboojum, Stefan O'Rear, Reini Urban, > Jonathan Scott Duff, takadonet, Christoph Otto, isBEKaml, > ash_, bubaflub, Jimmy Zhuo, Peter Lobsinger and Patrick Abi Salloum > > If you would like to contribute, > see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org > mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > The next release of Rakudo (#30) is scheduled for June 17, 2010. > A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2010 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. > > Have fun! > > [1] http://github.com/jnthn/blizkost > > -- > Solomon Foster: colo...@gmail.com > HarmonyWare, Inc: http://www.harmonyware.com > -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
