2009/5/21 Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com>: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce > the May 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #17 "Stockholm". > Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. > The tarball for the May 2009 release is available from > http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . >
A Windows setup is available at http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ with many others languages. Parrot-1.2.0 : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=211372&package_id=254691&release_id=684051 Parrot-1.2.0-Rakudo-17 (addon) : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=211372&package_id=310553&release_id=684268 The Parrot documentation is also available as a CHM (Compiled HTML Help) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=211372&package_id=312161&release_id=684050 > Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the > frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue > to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain > the latest source directly from the main repository at github. > More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo . > > Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named > after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Stockholm"; > Stockholm Perl Mongers will be holding a Perl 6 hackathon on May 29 [3]. > Perl 6 developer Carl Mäsak is a member of Stockholm Perl Mongers and > a main author of November [4], Druid [5], proto [6], and other > Perl 6-based packages. Carl also contributes patches to Rakudo, > and has been stress-testing Rakudo over the past year, submitting > nearly 400 bug reports. > > In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes > and improvements: > > * Rakudo is now passing 11,342 spectests, an increase of 875 > passing tests since the April 2009 release. With this release > Rakudo is now passing 68% of the available spectest suite. > > * We now have an updated docs/ROADMAP . > > * Errors and stack traces now report the file name and line number > in the original source code. > > * Some custom operators can be defined, and it's possible to > refer to operators using &infix:<op> syntax. > > * We can start to load libraries written in other Parrot languages. > > * Regexes now produce a Regex sub. > > * More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in > Perl 6 and placed as part of the setting. > > * There are many additional improvements and features in this release, > see docs/ChangeLog for a more complete list. > > The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for > making Rakudo Perl possible. 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 (#18) is scheduled for June 18, 2009. > A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 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! > > References: > [1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/ > [2] Stockholm.pm, http://sthlm.pm.org/ > [3] Stockholm Perl 6 hackathon, > http://vic20.blipp.com/pipermail/kameler/2009-May/000318.html > [4] November wiki engine, http://github.com/viklund/november/ > [5] Druid, http://github.com/masak/druid/ > [6] Proto, http://github.com/masak/proto/ > >
