chromatic writes "On behalf
of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.12 "Of the
Caribbean." Parrot is a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 0.4.12 can be obtained via CPAN
(soon), or follow the download instructions.
For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself,
we recommend using Subversion
or SVK
on our source code repository
to get the latest and best Parrot code.
The next release will take place on 19 June 2007.
Parrot 0.4.12 News:
- even more refactorings and improvements in configuration system
- improved tests and documentation for configuration system — Languages:
- Updated abc, PHP ("Plumhead"), Lua, Tcl
- Reclaimed Lisp — Design:
- new PMC PDD draft partially completed — Implementation:
- continued implementation of PDD 15 (Objects)
- minor garbage collector and memory management improvements
- several memory leaks resolved
- extended support for compilers other than GCC
- improved C++ compiler compatibility
- enhanced support for Solaris, non-MSVC Win32, and other platforms
Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
sponsors for supporting this project.
Enjoy!"
