I am glad to announce Pugs 6.2.9, released during Ingy's OSCON talk:
http://pugscode.org/dist/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.9.tar.gz
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Following last month's plan, this release features a Perl6/PIL to javascript
code generator, written in Perl 5, currently passing 64% of the test suite.
We also see the beginning of a code generator from PIL to perl5, and a
self-representing Perl 6 object model prototype. The new PIL design and
runcore is also progressing nicely, which should give a more robust
specification to Perl 6's compile time and runtime semantics.
A live CD is available as usual, courtesy of Ingo Blechschmidt:
http://linide.sf.net/pugs-livecd-6.2.9.iso
Ingy's slides are under the Pugs tree as docs/talks/oscon-apocalypse.spork and
online at http://www.kwiki.org/apocalypse/start.html in HTML.
All in all, it's a lot of fun. Check out the two movies we made for the
OSCON talk as well:
http://no.perlcabal.org/~autrijus/oscon05-autrijus.mp4
http://no.perlcabal.org/~autrijus/oscon05-stevan.mp4
Change the ".mp4" to ".swf" or ".wmv" for alternate video formats.
Enjoy!
/Autrijus/
== Changes for 6.2.9 (r6049) - Aug 4, 2005
=== Pugs Internals
* New build system in `inc/PugsBuild`
** Configuration preferences are stored in `config.yml`
** Presists across builds, overridable via `%*ENV<PUGS_BUILD_OPTS>`
* `$CALLER::_` is now again usable in defaults.
* JavaScript Backend
** Actively progressing in `perl5/PIL2JS`
** Passes 64.00% of the Pugs test suite
* Perl5 Backend
** Begun in `perl5/PIL-Run`
** Primitive interactive shell as `crude_repl.pl`
* Object MetaModel
** Perl 5 prototype is mostly self-hosting
** New C3-based method dispatch algorithm
** JavaScript version partially completed
** Java version begun (in very early stages)
* Pugs Intermediate Language
** New runcore design begun in `src/PIL`
** QuickCheck-based specification tests added
* Precompilation for arbitrary modules (not enabled by default)
=== Bundled Modules
* New Perl 6 modules:
** `MIME::Base64`
** `Recurrence`
** `Span`
* Additions to `libwww-perl`:
** `HTTP::Cookies`
** `HTTP::Query`
** `HTTP::Request::CGI`
** `HTTP::Status`
** `URI::Escape`
* Additions to `DateTime`:
** `DateTime::Set`
=== Test, Examples and Documentations
* Many new tests and test refactoring, we now have 8100+ tests
* A number of additions to `examples/cookbook`
* Beginning of Rule-based grammars for Perl6 in `modules/Grammars`
* SVG generation examples in `examples/graphics`
* `STATUS` document added to the top level to keep track of current progress
* `docs/notes/plan` expanded and added macro-related issues
* `examples/algorithms/Newton.pm` implements the newton method with currying
* `examples/network/evalbot.p6` gets safe &print primitive
* `examples/network/seenbot.p6` gets pretty duration printing
* `examples/network/svnbot.p6` supports branch information
* `examples/ppt/cat.p6` added to Perl Power Tools
* iblech's LUGA talk as `Anatomie_eines_Compilers_am_Beispiel_von_Pugs.latex`
* ingy's OSCON talk as `oscon-apocalypse.spork`
=== Bug Fixes
* Fix pair binding for functions expecting pairs as arguments
* Global destruction is now guaranteed upon program exit
* Parameter's defaults are now evaluated in its original lexical scope
* Parser for hash subscripting was globbing whitespaces after it
* Primitive listops now handles Pairs as regular arguments
* Various `+$foos` in sub signatures changed to `?$foo` in `Test.pm`
* `%h<x>>` was misparsed as `%h{'x>'}`
* `-Inf` now stringifies as `-Inf`, not `-Infinity`
* `.end` and `.elems` no longer work as scalar methods
* `/a/ ~~ "a"` now works the same way as `"a" ~~ /a/`
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