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pmichaud committed Aug 20, 2009
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that approach.)

Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6"
(or "perl6.exe") executables only work when run from the
(or "perl6.exe") executables only work when invoked from the
Rakudo root directory until a "make install" is performed.
Running "make install" will install Rakudo into the appropriate
locations, and those executables can be run from any directory.
Running "make install" will install Rakudo and its libraries
into the Parrot installation that was used to build it, and then
the executables will work when invoked from any directory.

Some of the specific major changes and improvements occuring
with this release include:

* Rakudo is now passing 12,369 spectests, an increase of 493
passing tests since the July 2009 release. With this release
Rakudo is now passing 69.9% of the available spectest suite.
Rakudo is now passing 69.98% of the available spectest suite.

* We now have a much cleaner traits implementation. Many of the
Perl 6 built-in traits are now implemented in Perl 6, and
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