Your new Bluza[1] proudly presents Parrot 0.0.13 Halloween edition[2]. Proposed originally as a fun release it has a remarkable list of improvements, additions, and fixes[3]. While not really milestones are reached, many steps towards these are done.
After some pause you can grab it from <http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.0.13.tar.gz> or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at <http://dev.perl.org/cvs/>.
Turn your web browser towards <http://www.parrotcode.org/> for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:
Have fun! leo
[1] Austrian dialect word for pumpkin with some aftermath of an head filled with water.
[2] Version number fits nicely todays date - and we don't release by the dozen.
[3] The list of changes includes:
- The Big Move: Parrot source and build files rearranged into sub dirs - Build imcc as parrot - Objects more finished - Delegate vtable methods to byte code - Binary multi-method dispatching - Isa and does methods for PMCs - Call byte code from C - Start of extension interface - Experimental struct handling - Catch access to NULL PMCs - Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes - IO fixes and improvements - Dynamic opcode libraries - Fix-assigned opcode numbers - Argument flattening for function calls - More native call interface (NCI) signatures - Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries - Forth language is vastly improved - New tcl and urm languages - BSD and Win32 build improvements - Many new tests and fixes