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Yesterday, TPF received word from Google that our submission to be a participating organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code project was accepted. Our thanks to everyone involved in the application process, but especially to Eric Wilhelm who organized and drove the effort. We will provide more details here soon. ... read more |
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Parrot releases continue to come out once a month. Version 0.5.2 was released in January. The highlight of 0.5.2 for many is surely the inclusion of a perl6 make target, meaning that you can now take a Parrot release and make yourself a Perl 6 binary in just three easy steps: tar -xvzf parrot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd parrot-x.x.x perl ./Configure.pl make perl6 The end result is a perl6 binary that you can ... read more |
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November and December saw the usual monthly release of Parrot. However, November's release was particularly notable, as it was version 0.5.0. The minor version number increase came because it includes an implementation of the object design as specified in PDD15. This was a major piece of work, both in the implementation, and integration with existing language implementaitons. The 0.5.1 release was also quite exciting. The major work for this release ... read more |
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that, last month, Chris Dolan successfully completed his "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/04/new_grant_awards.html to write 20 Perl-Best-Practices-inspired policies for "Perl::Critic.":http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/ There are several reasons why this wasn't posted sooner, but I apologise for the delay. Chris delivered 19 out of the 20 policies originally proposed, as one of the policies was implemented by another contributor prior to the start of the grant. During the course of this ... read more |
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The Parrot team has continued to make monthly releases, releasing 0.4.16 in September and 0.4.17 in October. These releases include more work on the NQP language as well as many updates and cleanups for the design documents As usual, there were also plenty of bug fixes, and in particular much of the code was reviewed as part of the effort to complete the PMC design. I'm very happy to report ... read more |