diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'skel/docs/announce/2011.07')
| -rw-r--r-- | skel/docs/announce/2011.07 | 84 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 84 deletions
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 deleted file mode 100644 index b51858b..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 - -On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to -announce the July 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2011 release is -available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. - -IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPCOMING RELEASES: This is the last Rakudo Star -release to use a compiler from the current "master" branch of Rakudo. -For the past several months, Rakudo compiler development has -primarily occurred in a separate "nom" ("New Object Model") branch of -its repository. Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will -become the new "master" branch and will be the source for future -compiler and Star releases. - -In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language -("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". The July 2011 Star release includes release #43 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.6.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -The Rakudo team plans to issue another distribution release -in August 2011 based on the new "nom" compiler. The new -compiler contains many improvements over the current line -of development (including vastly improved performance), but also -will not be 100% backwards-compatible due to changes in the -Perl 6 language specification and elimination of some workarounds. -Existing Rakudo Star users looking for stability should continue -to use the July 2011 release as the new distribution releases -stabilize over the next several months. - -Details about deprecations and migration guidelines will be -provided in future releases and on rakudo.org . - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * 10%-30% improvement in compile and execution speed - * New gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators - * Int.base - * Call counter for Perl 6-level subroutines - * Better handling of &infix:<=> right associativity - * Fix bug in exponentiation of negative numbers - * Fix building on systems with smaller RAM - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. Some of the not-quite-there features include: - * nested package definitions - * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack - * typed arrays - * macros - * state variables - * threads and concurrency - * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints - * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers - * interactive readline that understands Unicode - * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes - * non-blocking I/O - * most of Synopsis 9 - * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools - -There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features -that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star -2011.07 and other Perl 6 implementations. - -In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the -programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are -many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken -features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. - -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. -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 -for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, -see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org -mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ |