Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #27 ("Copenhagen")

[Wendell Hatcher]

Is there a production release date?

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On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:47 AM, "Nuno 'smash' Carvalho" <smash at cpan.org>  
wrote:

> Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #27 ("Copenhagen")
>
> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
> March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #27 "Copenhagen".
> Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
> (see http://www.parrot.org).  The tarball for the March 2010 release
> is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
>
> Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named
> after a Perl Mongers group.  The March 2010 release is code named
> "Copenhagen" for Copenhagen.pm, hosts of the Perl 6 Copenhagen
> Hackathon [1], which took place in connection with the Open Source  
> Days
> Conference. The main goal of the hackathon was to raise some awareness
> around Perl 6, and to give everyone a chance to get their hands-on  
> with
> Perl 6.
>
> The Copenhagen hackathon helped nail down a number of issues regarding
> module loading. During these days we also saw a heightened activity on
> the channel, in the Perl 6 and Rakudo repositories, and in the  
> number of
> passing tests. All this was contributed by people both on location and
> elsewhere. The RT queue peaked at 725 new/open tickets, and then  
> started
> on a downward trend. Apart from the great steps forward in  
> productivity,
> it was the first time some of the core Perl 6 contributors had a  
> chance
> to meet.
>
> Some of the specific changes and improvements occuring with this
> release include:
>
> *  Numerous updates to trigonometric functions and the Rat class
>
> *  Basic s/// and s[...] = '...' implemented
>
> *  use improved and need/import implemented, with some basic support
>   for versioned modules and lexical importation
>
> *  Grammars work again and now include support for regexes taking
>   parameters and proto-regexes
>
> *  Series operator now has basic support for the current Spec.
>
> *  User defined operators working again
>
> *  Support, though with caveats, for !, R, X and Z meta-operators
>
> *  Performance improvements for invocation and hash creation
>
> *  Various parsing bugs fixed
>
> *  Variables initialized to Any by default now, not Mu
>
> *  ROADMAP updates
>
> For a more detailed list of changes see "docs/ChangeLog".
>
> The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
> making Rakudo Perl possible.  If you would like to contribute,
> see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler at perl.org
> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
>
> The next release of Rakudo (#28) is scheduled for April 22, 2010.
> A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2010 is
> available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file.  In general, Rakudo
> development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
> Parrot monthly release.  Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each  
> month.
>
> Have fun!
>
> [1] http://conferences.yapceurope.org/hack2010dk/