Pkgsrc changes:
o Adapt to changes in installed files
o One of the files which are patched have changed location
Upstream changes:
New in 3.1.0
- Core
+ Exception PMCs are now subclassable from PIR
+ IPv6 is now supported and tested
+ Added Parrot_ext_try function to extend API (experimental), to
allow implementation of try .. catch construcs in C extensions.
+ We now have a YAML library called YAML::Tiny, a port of YAML::Tiny
from Perl 5
+ Deprecated/experimental features are now stored in api.yaml in
an easy-to-parse format, which will allow automated tools easy
access to this data. This replaces DEPRECATED.pod, which no
longer exists.
+ Improved GC latency
+ Improved GC performance on low-memory systems
+ Improved packfile annotation lookup complexity
+ Removal of unused code and SVN based code
- NQP
+ A repository for a new NQP version which has a new object model is
created at http://github.com/perl6/nqp
- Languages
+ Cardinal (Ruby on Parrot) now compiles and passes it's test suite on master
and is looking for developers : https://github.com/parrot/cardinal
+ Cardinal can send smoke reports with "rake smoke" or "parrot
setup.pir smoke"
+ Jaspers, an implementation of Javascript on Parrot, now has a Github repo
and is looking for developers: https://github.com/leto/jaspers
- Community
+ The following Parrot Google Code-In students were grand prize winners:
Fernando Brito, Brazil
David Czech, Canada
Nolan Lum, United States
Matt Rajca, United States
Tony Young, New Zealand
Daniel Kang, United States
We are very proud of them for their fine work and congratulate
them for achieving top finalist status! For more info, see:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-code-in-grand-prize...
- Documentation
+ Many new Parrot-related terms were added to docs/glossary.pod
+ Removal of most remaining references to SVN
+ Internal project documentation is included in html output
- Tests
+ Test suite now passes on NetBSD 5.1
+ Test coverage increased greatly for the Embed/Extend subsystem,
thanks to a TPF grant:
http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2011/01/parrot-embed-grant-update-2.html
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