From 281ce87416a0fc0b327361aa9e3ffed583743be8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:04 +0200 Subject: prepare release announcement --- skel/docs/announce/2012.05 | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.05 diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbd5e4b --- /dev/null +++ b/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +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 May 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and +usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the May 2012 +release is available from . + +In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language +("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as +"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2014.05 [0] of the +Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 of the Parrot Virtual +Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other +resources collected from the Perl 6 community. + +Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the +previous distribution release. + +* -I and -M command-line options +* support for non-Int enums +* 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name +* 'import' now works +* basic support for Version literals +* %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses +* basic implementation of pack and unpack ported from 'ng' branch +* fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved +* various new regex features and improvements + +Rakudo now also includes the lib.pm module. + +This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error +reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown +as typed exceptions. + +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: + + * macros + * threads and concurrency + * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints + * interactive readline that understands Unicode + * non-blocking I/O + * much of Synopsis 9 + +There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features +that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star +2012.05 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 . + +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 + 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 , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org +mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. + +[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.05 +[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[2] http://parrot.org/ -- cgit v1.1