Parrot 0.0.11 "Doubloon" released

[sfink]

At long last, Parrot-0.0.11 "Doubloon" has been released!

This release features direct generation of executable binaries, dramatically improved documentation, and a built-in bread maker! Get it while it's hot from CPAN, or join the party by getting the latest CVS checkout by following the directions at dev.perl.org.

Enhancements in 0.0.11 include:

• Executable output
• Dynamic PMC registration
• Trial exception system
• Beginnings of object system
• Iterators
• Ordered hashes
• I/O system improvements
• References
• Documentation for basic PMC types
• IMCC support of Parrot Calling Conventions
• Runtime loading of chartypes (and other string improvements)
• Conditional breakpoints
• Dramatically accelerated sweeps for finalizable objects
• Small PMCs (PMCs split into core and extensions)
• Loadable bytecode packfiles
• Constant PMCs
• Sub variants that deal with the stack correctly
• Switched runops core
• Line numbers in warnings
• Environment access
• Many documentation cleanups
• Conversion to CPS style!
• BASIC debugger and many other wacky features
• Filename, line number parsing support in IMCC

If you would like to join in the fun, see the mailing list or its archive. All discussion occurs on the perl6-internals mailing list. Start from parrotcode.org for information on all Parroty things. Our immediate future plans include exceptions and objects, so now's a good time to jump in if those things grab you.

(Oh, and I was kidding about the bread maker.)

[sfink]

Even better, I just released Parrot 0.0.11.1, codenamed "oops!".

It'll show up at http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SF/SFINK/parrot-0.0.11.1.tar.gz any minute now. I neglected to update some native-format bytecode tests. I think you'll only notice a difference between 'make test' for the two tarballs on big-endian machines. Or something like that.

[Anonymous Monk]

Sorry to ask here, but is there a simple work-around for this?

parrot-0.0.11.1>perl configure.pl
Too many components to VERSION file contents: '0.0.11.1' (should be 3)
+! at lib/Parrot/BuildUtil.pm line 48.

[Elian]

Yep, download 0.0.11.2, code name "Damn!" :) Should be up on CPAN reasonably soon.

Or sync up with CVS, if you have that capability, as we fixed the problem that caused this error.

[Asim]

There's a fix already on the mailing list, check out the link. I used it, and it works. Well, except for all the unrelated compile errors on my Win32 box. *grumble* Think I'll crank up cygwin again...

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.