Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/nom' into js

.gitignore

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ perl6-js
 perl6-js.bat
 t/localtest.data
 t/spec
+t/packages
 /panda
 perl6.c
 perl6.o

CREDITS

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ E: rightfold@gmail.com
 
 N: Elizabeth Mattijsen
 U: lizmat
-E: liz@dijkmat.nl
+E: liz@wenzperl.nl
 
 N: Erik Johansen
 E: perl6-git@uniejo.dk
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ U: paultcochrane
 E: paul@liekut.de
 
 N: Pawel Murias
+U: pmurias
 E: pawelmurias@gmail.com
 
 N: Pepe Schwarz
@@ -849,4 +850,8 @@ U: mmcleric
 E: me@berekuk.ru
 D: Whatever-currying, colonpair fixes
 
+N: eater
+U: the-eater
+E: perl6@eaterofco.de
+
 =cut

INSTALL.txt

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
 
     If you would like readline-like features, such as command history, line
     editing, and tab completion for builtins, you should install the Linenoise
-    module via panda:
+    module via zef:
 
-        $ panda install Linenoise
+        $ zef install Linenoise
 
     Important: To run Rakudo from outside the build directory, you must run
 

README.md

@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ See [our contribution guidelines](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/CONT
 
 If you would like simple history and tab completion in the perl6 executable,
 you need to install the Linenoise module.  The recommended way to install
-Linenoise is via [panda](https://github.com/tadzik/panda):
+Linenoise is via [zef](https://github.com/ugexe/zef):
 
-    panda install Linenoise
+    zef install Linenoise
 
 An alternative is to use a third-party program such as [rlwrap](http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/#rlwrap).
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2017.04.3
+2017.05

docs/2017-IO-Grant--Action-Plan.md

@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ purpose.**
 10. Leave IO::Path.Str as is, without any changes. [Discussion](https://github.com/zoffixznet/IOwesomeness/issues/20)
 11. The change to [`IO::Handle.Supply(:bin)` arg handling](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/2017-IO-Grant--Action-Plan.md#changes-to-supply-issue-for-discussion), change to `IO::Handle.lock` argument handling, and making `IO::Path.new-from-absolute-path` private is to be done in 6.c and not 6.d; the change were miscategorized.
 12. Make all IO routines that throw fail instead. [Discussion](https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2016-12-28#i_13814044)
-
+13. The behaviour of [.is-absolute on Windows](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/2017-IO-Grant--Action-Plan.md#make-iopathis-absolute-give-false-for--path-on-windows-issue-for-discussion) was decided to be left as is.
+14. .child was left as is [the proposed secure version](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/2017-IO-Grant--Action-Plan.md#make-iopathchild-fail-for-non-child-paths--add-iopathconcat-with-issue-for-discussion) is implemented and is commented out in Rakudo's source. It was decided to switch to it in 6.d. The `.concat-with` routine was eventually named `.add`
+15. `IO::Cat` was eventually named `IO::CatHandle`
 
 ---------------------------
 

docs/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,167 @@
+New in 2017.05:
+ + Fixes:
+    + Made Promise subclass-friendly [a61746fe][a7c23aa2]
+    + Fixed unwanted warnings on Windows with `$*HOME` [4ae7c697]
+    + Fixed handling of `<1` and NaN in Baggy.pick/.roll [40e4e132][e5d2c6f6]
+    + Fixed NaN and empty Baggy handling with Baggy.pick/.(pick|grab)pairs
+        [abc0509c][22ba2317][22ba2317][44c89ed9]
+    + Fixed SetHash.(iterator|values|kv) to have same semantics
+        as (Bag|Mix)Hashes [e5b5d346][e9ae0047]
+    + Fixed off-by-one in `lines` routines when `:close` is given [bf399380]
+    + Fixed `$*CWD` inside IO::Path.dir's :test Callable [b2a64a13]
+    + Fixed regression with IO::Handle.close's value sunked in .slurp [84eb3599]
+    + Made spaces and quotes escaped in MAIN() usage message [22bd2bbd]
+    + Fixed dispatch hang in Str.match: Nil [1c21974d]
+    + Made &slurp/&spurt/&get/&getc/&close `fail` instead of throwing [6fa4bbcb]
+    + Made &lines/&words/&slurp/&spurt/&get/&getc/&close pass all of the
+        given arguments to the methods they use [6fa4bbcb][34b58d1b]
+    + Fixed handling of 8 digit hex literals in 32-bit systems [01dd2138]
+    + Fixed $?BITS on 32-bit systems [d057efdb]
+    + Fixed time stamp check interfering with packaging modules [ff4a034d]
+    + Made perl6 usage message print to STDERR instead of STDOUT when an
+      invalid cmd line option is used [2a6d3d1e]
+    + Made sure Setty (^) Setty always returns a Set [4e37e7c5]
+    + Fixed typed optional Array and Hash parameters [9f5c8e94][6231ecb0]
+    + Made `$*HOME` default to Nil, not Any [7412184f]
+    + Fixed crash on ^D to `$*IN` when reading with IO::ArgFiles [4b8fd4a4]
+    + Fixed REPL crash when `$*HOME` is not set [1b0e41f9]
+    + Fixed Test.pm6's &like crash when a non-Str is passed [ba3cf4e5]
+    + Fixed Seq.perl for cached Seqs [54f50956]
+    + Fixed crash in `eqv`, .iterator, .Slip, .join, .List, .list, .eager, .Array, .is-lazy,
+        and .sink on cached Seqs [400f4ec8][c13d89b3]
+    + Fixed role mixins with native attrs with defaults [6179ab34]
+    + Fixed `andthen`-`orelse` chaining [37316f82][e1994d94][1ed76a90]
+    + Fixed issues when `Empty` passed as arg to `andthen`/`notandthen` or postfix `with`/`without`
+        [3c8822e8][e1994d94][1ed76a90][fdb2b2ab]
+    + Fixed error in Iterable (+) Iterable if the Iterable contained Pairs [3d99321f]
+    + Fixed .perl for IO::Path and subclasses [134efd83]
+    + Fixed .IO on :U of IO::Path subclasses [69320e7f]
+    + Fixed SetHash retaining the containers [551b8a69]
+    + Fixed (Bag|Mix)Hash.values/.iterator/.pairs/.kv failing to check validity of assigned
+        values [c1bd844e][0e0ac2fb][0338ce46][14e09532][c61c7f88]
+    + Fixed 'ambiguous call' error in `eqv` and `cmp` with mixed allomorphs [e5870c11]
+    + Fixed IO::Path.copy/move when source/target are same [08a8075f]
+    + Fixed premature deletion of bin wrappers [c7aef59a]
+    + Fixed ghost elements remaining when popping off an Array [c776c087]
+    + Fixed rotate on empty list [b5c14bd1]
+    + Fixed hang in .join/.gist in certain cases of flat slurpy positional arg [5e6b3878]
+    + Fixed Str.comb(Int, $limit) for `<1` combers [a9959666]
+    + Fixed Str.comb with empty-string comber [aa711c14]
+    + Fixed unwanted split on read-chunk-size boundaries in IO::Handle.comb/.split by
+        making them .slurp the entire file [973338a6]
+    + Fixed crash in BagHash.pickpairs when given negative arguments [08b5c101]
+    + Fixed incorrect results in `+>` for large negative numbers [ef29bb9f][66e8e72c]
+    + Fixed is-deeply for Junction args [1c4d8451][dc5eece9]
+    + Fixed crash in is-deeply when Seq type objects are given [f3f99b3a]
+    + Fixed dispatch infiniloop in (elem) and (cont) [407bce1d]
+    + Fixed issues with combiners on `/` in IO::Spec::Unix.is-absolute [f4309de9]
+    + Fixed issues with combiners on `/` in IO::Spec::Win32.rel2abs [c96727aa]
+    + Fixed crash when setting .nl-in/.encoding on unopened IO::Handle [06d8800e][70038855]
+    + Made IO::Handle.open respect attribute values [95e49dcb]
+    + Made IO::Path.parts a Map instead of Hash [9021a486]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Unix.path consistently return a Seq in all cases [05479793]
+    + Fixed IO::Spec::Win32.path failing to flatten resultant Seq [8992af13][816b2d4b]
+    + Fixed IO::Handle.perl.EVAL round-trip [a282b8c8]
+    + Made IO::Path.resolve set CWD to $!SPEC.dir-sep [a4127884]
+    + Fixed unwanted padding Nils from Str.words($limit) [4bcf84a2]
+    + Various improvements to warnings and error reporting
+        [9962d2b6][9ed89d94][d87de586][6d28d788][8511081f][4f9fa6b0][12cec7a7][d1a81b30]
+        [85c54db8][fc5698bd][1cf7ccba][0bd39de2][12c50b63]
+ + Additions:
+    + Made user grammars work more like real classes [db42d62f]
+    + Loading deps no longer uses file timestamps [ca0a7439]
+    + Changed type constraint on &slurp/&dir from Cool:D to IO() [6fa4bbcb][d0cd1372]
+    + Added IO::Handle candidate for &spurt [6fa4bbcb]
+    + Added Pair.Pair method [bd9e5730]
+    + Added Seq.Capture method (makes it possible to unpack Seqs in signatures) [98e137b1]
+    + Added QuantHash.Capture [5e74017d]
+    + Made `(^)`, `(+)`, `(.)` multis [8b8f66c0][44893e6a][48ce8701]
+    + Added primary and foreign key constraints and renamed some fields in
+        profiler's SQL output [c776c087]
+    + Added WhateverCode candidates to Map.roll and (Bag|Mix)Hash.grabpairs [1e58925c][2bda2703]
+    + Made Baggy.roll/.pick/.grab Int-ify their $count arguments [31be5128]
+    + Added big int support for `+<` and `+>` ops [6409ee58][ef29bb9f][66e8e72c]
+    + Made Date.clone take a formatter [a9a161ae]
+    + Added `$*DISTRO` and `$*KERNEL` information to `perl6 -V` output [94c4e7bf][b6496eda]
+    + Made `perl6 -V` sort its output [85230d06]
+    + Added support for `$*KERNEL.archname` [0c46aff2]
+    + Added `$*PERL.compiler.verbose-config` [85230d06][c3b47280]
+    + Added typed exceptions to IO::Handle.flush [b43ed18f]
+    + Added support for building the dist in install-dist.pl [4298dd5e]
+    + Simplified getting osname from VM.config [7c8f8d3e][18706852]
+    + Added VM.osname as a rough equivalent to Perl 5's `$^O` [e79d7498][505ee33d]
+    + Now show `System::Info` information with -V if module is installed [5feb3906][541597b8]
+    + Made IO::Handle.encoding settable via .new [7e9496dd]
+    + Added Proc::Async.ready [d76206e7]
+    + Implemented $limit arg for IO::Handle.words [84502dc2]
+ + Removals:
+    + Removed IO::Handle.iterator that existed for a couple of releases [eb8d006e]
+    + Removed unspecced Seq.is-ready method [59f6f485]
+    + Removed broken Exception.resumable method [f2af3db1]
+    + Removed argument forwarding from Instant.DateTime coercer [6bb1b5b4]
+    + Removed IO::Path.dir's :absolute and :Str arguments [aa72bdef]
+    + Removed .tell info in IO::Handle.gist [276d4a7e]
+    + Removed `:directory` from Map returned by `IO::Spec::*.split` [6ed14ef6]
+ + Efficiency:
+    + Made Mixy (^) Mixy about 150x faster [9f0b1218][bea8ac68]
+    + Made Baggy (^) Baggy about 150x faster [ee459360]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Win32.is-absolute about 63x faster [c6fd7361]
+    + Made Map (^) Map about 50x faster [13924397]
+    + Made Setty (+) Setty about 45x faster [14568496]
+    + Made Baggy (+) Baggy about 50x faster [ab5cd11b]
+    + Made Mixy (+) Mixy about 45x faster [92df7d5c]
+    + Made Setty (.) Setty about 35x faster [1562da07]
+    + Made Baggy (.) Baggy about 35x faster [3f97831d]
+    + Made Mixy (.) Mixy about 35x faster [226cd8b6]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Win32.path 26x faster [8992af13][816b2d4b]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Cygwin.is-absolute 21x faster [48cf0e67]
+    + Made Setty (^) Setty about 20x faster [d92a2123]
+    + Made Iterable (+) Iterable about 18x faster [6de08933]
+    + Made Map.pick()/roll() about 7x faster [2fb6872b]
+    + Made Baggy.pickpairs about 5x faster [c0270c66]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Unix.path 4.6x faster [05479793]
+    + Made (Bag|Mix)Hash.grabpairs/.grabpairs(N) about 4x faster [911b43de][3670720a]
+    + Made Str.words/.lines with $limit arg lazy and up to 3.6x faster [4bcf84a2]
+    + Made Iterable (^) Iterable about 3.5x faster [b2332816]
+    + Made Map.roll(N) up to 3x faster [c74d37ba]
+    + Made Mixy.roll(N) about 3x faster [b9222061]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs 2.9x faster [277b6e5b]
+    + Made Map (+) Map about 2.5x faster [a85b654d]
+    + Made Map (.) Map about 2.5x faster [9c9ebd0b]
+    + Made Iterable (.) Iterable 2.5x faster [3d99321f]
+    + Made Mix.roll() about 2.5x faster [a2602b9c]
+    + Made `notandthen` and postfix `without` 2.5x faster [fdb2b2ab]
+    + Made `andthen` and postfix `with` 2.5x faster [3c8822e8]
+    + Made `orelse` 2.4x faster [37316f82]
+    + Made IO::Path.is-relative about 2.1x faster [ff23416b]
+    + Made Baggy.pickpairs(N) about 2x faster [0f21f511]
+    + Made 1-arg IO::Handle.say up to 2x faster [76af5367]
+    + Made BagHash.roll 1.7x faster [07feca67]
+    + Made MixHash.total 1.4x faster [5e459bce][4c813666]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Win32.split about 82% faster [894ba82d]
+    + Made IO::Path.is-absolute about 80% faster [74680d44]
+    + Made `&say(**@args)` up to 70% faster [204ea59b]
+    + Made `&put(**@args)` up to 70% faster [6d7fc8e6]
+    + Made `+>` about 55% faster [ef29bb9f]
+    + Made `<+` about 12% faster [6409ee58]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Unix.join about 40% faster [d2726676]
+    + Made IO::Handle.put($x) about 5%-35% faster [50429b13]
+    + Made BagHash.grab 30% faster [2df7060c]
+    + Made IO::Path.dir up to 23% faster [aa72bdef]
+    + Made Baggy.roll about 15% faster [9e7d0b36]
+    + Made BagHash.grab(N) about 10% faster [87a95fc1]
+    + Made Baggy.EXISTS-KEY about 8% faster [451a2380]
+    + Made List.AT-POS about 5% faster for common path [736be4d4]
+    + Made IO::Spec::Win32.rel2abs 6% faster [c96727aa]
+    + Made Hash.EXISTS-KEY about 1% faster [eb1ce414]
+    + Micro-optimized reg/init dynamic [1d6a0023]
+    + Speeded up module loading a bit by persisting source checksum [3829488f]
+    + Assorted internal improvements to CPU/memory use [89f2ae4f][3c7cd933][aa23a91f]
+        [7c531835][ccedd6b1][3dc08553][514124e3][146f3a39][9cb26c09][afd24a88][f2fc5674]
+        [6641df83][d6cf518c][f18d0dc0][1a920dcc][bdb5391b][b1fbd133][7404c706][762fd239]
+        [fec547a1][5ec8a464][8088f080][45305eca][e7087f29][f4017c32][3f7d1334][6ea2f12e]
+        [788e6de6][3fb3c27e][09506dc8]
+
 New in 2017.04.3:
  + Fixes:
     + Fix REPL history file failure with Linoise on [6c66c1b88c]

docs/announce/2017.04.3.md

@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ of multiple ecosystem modules. This will prevent issues that require point relea
 
 The tarball for this release is available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.
 
+**This point release requires a newer NQP and MoarVM than 2017.04**. There has not been any further NQP or MoarVM *release* tags, but the version/git tags required are at least:
+
+* NQP 2017.04-24-g87501f7b
+* MoarVM 2017.04-44-gf0db8822
+
 Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star
 distribution[^2] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler
 only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see