Will Coleda writes "From leo—
On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of
Parrot 0.1.2.
What is Parrot?
Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic
languages.
Parrot 0.1.2 contains a lot of new stuff:
- New string handling code. Strings now have charset and encoding
- Parts of a generational garbage collector
- Better Python support, separated into dynclasses
- Parrot Grammar Engine
- Improved test coverage and documentation
- and a lot more
You can grab it from
CPAN.
As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you
just
get the latest and best from CVS.
Turn your web browser towards
http://www.parrotcode.org for more
information about Parrot, get involved, and:
Have fun!
leo"
websites are badly out of date
TeeJay on 2005-03-08T13:25:58
I don't know a great deal about Parrot and Perl 6 but I take an interest and can see that both the Parrot and Perl 6 websites have not been updated for some time.
The perl 6 page talks about parrot being at 0.0.1.1 and there hasn't been anything added or changed on the sites for months at a time.
I'd really like to do something but the information available is so out of date and limited that its hard to see what is being done and what progress is being made.
There has been a hell of a lot of work done on both p6 and parrot as well as pugs, but this warrants a total of 2 paragraphs on the perl 6 progress page.
Yes I'd be prepared to try and update them a bit if I could work with the p6/parrot list summariser for a heads up and answering my questions and if I had an account but I don't even know who to ask.
I've tried contacting people like ask about the perl.org websites before but never got a response.
A.
Re:websites are badly out of date
coke on 2005-03-08T15:25:24
Thanks for the offer to help!
FYI, parrotcode.org will be updated shortly to reflect the new release. Bootstrapping problem, we needed the use.perl article to hit first =-)
If you're interested in supplying patches to the web sites, you can get guest access to the repositories at http://svn.perl.org/perl.org/docs/live/parrotcode ... submit any patches from that to webmaster@perl.org, where they'll go into a queue for approval.
The summaries are available online, or, of course, on the mailing lists.
If you need questions answered, there are several resources: For parrot, check out perl6-internals at perl.org, and to a lesser degree, #parrot on irc.perl.org. For pugs, it's perl6-compiler at perl.org or #perl6 on freenode.
Regards.
Re:websites are badly out of date
coke on 2005-03-08T15:28:26
Login is guest/guest on the svn url, btw.
