From c012d8b882480151d8eb7da92c4cca80d1d9b814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:36:53 -0500 Subject: Move skel/ into top-level directory, to try building directly from the repo. --- skel/docs/announce/2012.04 | 80 ---------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 80 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 skel/docs/announce/2012.04 (limited to 'skel/docs/announce/2012.04') diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 deleted file mode 100644 index 3acad8c..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +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 April 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and -usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 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 2012.04.1 [0] of the -Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.3 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. - -* much improved startup time - -* much more robust module precompilation - -* autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again - -* many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented - -* improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays - via NativeCall.pm6 - -* now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port - of Dancer) - -This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error -reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown -as typed exceptions. - -Some notable incompatible changes from the previous release include - - * the 'lib' directory is not included in the default module search path - anymore. You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment - variable - - * 'defined' used to be a prefix operator, and is now a regular subroutine. - This means you must updated code that relies 'defined' taking only one - argument. For example 'defined $x ?? $a !! $b' should be written as - '$x.defined ?? $a !! $b' or 'defined($x) ?? $a !! $b'. - -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: - * pack and unpack - * 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 -2012.04 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/2012.04.1 -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ -- cgit v1.1