@@ -27,17 +27,18 @@ automatically downloads and builds Parrot as before, if you prefer 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 docs/announce/2009-08 0e5e157921525d33e2e9c498508a66ec3ca5d959 pmichaud pmichaud@pobox.com http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/fd8fc8a8e4ea0db44928b0da0bbf0a9bd0adb745 fd8fc8a8e4ea0db44928b0da0bbf0a9bd0adb745

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