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Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released
Your new Bluza[ 1 ] proudly presents Parrot 0.0.13 Halloween edition[ 2 ]. Proposed originally as a fun release it has a remarkable list of improvements, additions, and fixes[ 3 ]. While some milestones have not really been reached, there have been many steps towards getting these done.
After some pause you can grab it from parrot-0.0.13.tar.gz or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at dev.perl.org/cvs."
Turn your web browser towards parrotcode.org for more
information about Parrot, get involved, and:
Have fun!
leo
[1] Austrian dialect word for pumpkin with some aftermath of an head filled with water.
[2] Version number fits nicely todays date - and we don't release by the dozen.
[3] The list of changes includes:
- The Big Move: Parrot source and build files rearranged into sub dirs
- Build imcc as parrot
- Objects more finished
- Delegate vtable methods to byte code
- Binary multi-method dispatching
- Isa and does methods for PMCs
- Call byte code from C
- Start of extension interface
- Experimental struct handling
- Catch access to NULL PMCs
- Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes
- IO fixes and improvements
- Dynamic opcode libraries
- Fix-assigned opcode numbers
- Argument flattening for function calls
- More native call interface (NCI) signatures
- Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries
- Forth language is vastly improved
- New tcl and urm languages
- BSD and Win32 build improvements
- Many new tests and fixes
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