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authorpmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com>2010-08-25 12:19:28 -0500
committerpmichaud <pmichaud@pobox.com>2010-08-25 12:19:28 -0500
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More announcement updates.
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@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ previous release:
* Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack
* MAIN can parse short arguments
+This release (temporarily?) omits the Config::INI module that was
+included in the 2010.07 release, as it no longer builds with the
+shipped version of Rakudo. We hope to see Config::INI return soon.
+
There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
@@ -58,45 +62,7 @@ features are welcomed.
See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about
Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-
-Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of
-the modules provided by this release include:
- * Blizkost
- - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6
- * MiniDBI
- - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6
- * Zavolaj
- - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6
- * SVG and SVG::Plot
- - create scalable vector graphics
- * HTTP::Daemon
- - a simple HTTP server
- * XML::Writer
- - generate XML
- * YAML
- - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML
- * Term::ANSIColor
- - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
- * Test::Mock
- - create mock objects and check what methods were called
- * Math::Model
- - describe and run mathematical models
- * Config::INI
- - parse and write configuration files
- * File::Find
- - find files in a given directory
- * LWP::Simple
- - fetch resources from the web
-
-These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module
-development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases
-of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set
-of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be
-created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose
-different sets of modules or policies. More information about
-Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/.
-
-Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see
+An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as
<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors