From 78a9f592461b8b6fba216459aed9556e9bd7c537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:19:28 -0500 Subject: More announcement updates. --- skel/docs/announce/2010.08 | 44 +++++--------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) (limited to 'skel/docs') diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 index 2699bd3..b0d6cb6 100644 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 +++ b/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 @@ -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 in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors -- cgit v1.1