I updated the Cygwin distributions of parrot-4.3.0-1, rakudo-201204.1-1 (aka perl6) and rakudo-star-201204-1
These are stable, a so-called "supported" releases. Canonical homepages: http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.rakudo.org/ Canonical downloads: http://www.parrot.org/release/current http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads Packaging Details: * blizkost (perl5 in perl6) is gone. * winxed and nqp is new, parrot-nqp is an old version unfortunately required to bootstrap. maybe we'll add a new nqp package somewhen. * you need at least 2GB free RAM and an initialized rebase database to rebuild New in parrot See http://parrot.org/news/2012/Parrot-4.3.0 - Core + Winxed snapshot updated to 1.7.0 + Add type introspection to lexical variables. + New 'tools/release/parrot_github_release.pl' script to automate updates to the 'parrot.github.com' and 'parrot-docsx' repositories. + Numerous casting and consting fixes thanks to GCC 4.8 . - Documentation + Updated 'docs/projects/release_manager_guide.pod' + Updated 'docs/projects/release_parrot_github_guide.pod' + Improved function documentation. - Tests - Community - Platforms + Fixed alignment issues on ia64, sparc and mipsel. + Fixed a platform-specific issue with dlclose(). rakudo release announcement: http://rakudo.org/2012/04/26/announce-rakudo-star-2012-04-a-useful-usable-early-adopter-distribution-of-perl-6/ * much improved startup time * much more robust module precompilation * autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again * many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented * improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays via NativeCall.pm6 * now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port of Dancer) This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown as typed exceptions. notable incompatible changes from the previous releases: * the ‘lib’ directory is not included in the default module search path anymore. You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment variable -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
