Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released

Simon on 2003-10-31T15:39:00

Leopold Toetsch writes "Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released!

Your new Bluza[ ¹ ] proudly presents Parrot 0.0.13 Halloween edition[ ² ]. Proposed originally as a fun release it has a remarkable list of improvements, additions, and fixes[ ³ ]. While some milestones have not really been reached, there have been many steps towards getting these done.

After some pause you can grab it from parrot-0.0.13.tar.gz or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at dev.perl.org/cvs."

Turn your web browser towards parrotcode.org for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo

[1] Austrian dialect word for pumpkin with some aftermath of an head filled with water.

[2] Version number fits nicely todays date - and we don't release by the dozen.

[3] The list of changes includes:

• The Big Move: Parrot source and build files rearranged into sub dirs
• Build imcc as parrot
• Objects more finished
• Delegate vtable methods to byte code
• Binary multi-method dispatching
• Isa and does methods for PMCs
• Call byte code from C
• Start of extension interface
• Experimental struct handling
• Catch access to NULL PMCs
• Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes
• IO fixes and improvements
• Dynamic opcode libraries
• Fix-assigned opcode numbers
• Argument flattening for function calls
• More native call interface (NCI) signatures
• Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries
• Forth language is vastly improved
• New tcl and urm languages
• BSD and Win32 build improvements
• Many new tests and fixes