@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #16 ("Bratislava") +Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #16 ("Bratislava") On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the April 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #16 "Bratislava". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the April 2009 release is available from -http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . +http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ 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 +Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Bratislava", home to Jonathan Worthington and reportedly an excellent place to -obtain beer (a key component of Jonathan's contributions to Perl). -The Bratislava.pm group is quite active [2], with regular technical +obtain beer (a key component of Jonathan's contributions to Perl). +The Bratislava.pm group is quite active [2], with regular technical presentations and social gatherings. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ and improvements: * Rakudo is now passing 10,467 spectests, an increase of 3,194 passing tests since the March 2009 release. With this release - Rakudo is now passing approximately 65% of the available + Rakudo is now passing approximately 65% of the available spectest suite. * About 2/3 of the increase in passing tests is due to improved @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ and improvements: one can write / [\w+] ** ',' / to get a comma-separated list of words. -* More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in +* More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in Perl 6 and placed as part of the setting. * Release tar files now contain local copies of the appropriate @@ -61,16 +61,18 @@ and improvements: 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 help -contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the -perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. +making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute, +see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org +mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. The next release of Rakudo (#17) is scheduled for May 21, 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 +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] Bratislava.pm, http://bratislava.pm.org/ docs/announce/2009-04 6d8bf89ba186227fc9c44c06b8183f42b5bdcb70 pmichaud pmichaud@pobox.com http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/d79ccbea82a819f08598a36beb4723c9568015a6 d79ccbea82a819f08598a36beb4723c9568015a6 2009-04-22T21:27:14-07:00 2009-04-22T21:27:14-07:00 A few minor changes to the announcement text. b880730109b6ec1ceee1df061f5cc40224c7535b pmichaud pmichaud@pobox.com