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Day 62/63: 6.0.14 released!

autrijus on 2005-04-04T14:16:48

Sorry for falling off sleeping last night and skipped a journal. I was about to push 6.0.14 out that night, right after ingy, gugod and mugwump had figured out FreePAN out, but my brain refused to stay up anymore...

This morning I resume working, finally releasing 6.0.14 right before I go to $work. The full release notes is as below. See you tomorrow, when my brain hopefully is less exhausted. :-)

Changes for 6.0.14 - April 4, 2005

Pugs Internals

  • We now require GHC 6.4 on all platforms
  • Added socket primitives: listen(), connect(), accept()
  • Added thread primitives: async(), yield()
  • Added string primitives: chr(), ord(), hex(), split()
  • Adverb pairs: :key(123), :key<abc>, :key[1,2,3] and :key
  • pugscc may now be invoked outside the pugs source tree
  • slurp() now works on IO handles
  • Non-interpolated q// literals
  • Tentative %?CONFIG hash
  • pugs -V:configvar now displays that config variable
  • Command line improvements (-I, -l, -e, etc.)
  • Minimal IMC compiler as src/IMC.hs
  • Began work on GADTs; the Pad now holds Symbol Val types only
  • Support definition and invocation of subs with namespaces
Tests, Examples and Documentations
  • Many new tests: we have around 3850 now.
  • modules/ have been relocated to FreePAN. See modules/README
  • t/Synopsis/ have been relocated to Perl6::Bible on CPAN.
  • HTML generated by testgraph now reponds to mouseover
  • New autosmoker script added
  • Many cross-referencer improvements
  • Normalize all t/ to begin with #!/usr/bin/pugs
  • VICTUALS file added on April Fools
  • Debian package scripts in debian/
  • Updates on the Vim syntax file as util/perl6.vim
  • Pugs::MakeMaker is renamed to Perl6::MakeMaker
  • First Pugs obfuscation in examples/obfu/
  • HTTP server and client examples in examples/network/
Bug Fixes
  • ~~ now takes variables on the right hand side
  • Correct installation locations for ext/ modules
  • { block } in qq and rx no longer skips trailing whitespaces
  • pugs -e may now use @*ARGS in the one-liner
  • rx:perl:g no longer ignores the :g
  • $:x and $.x now parsed as variable names
  • Readline support is correctly probed on Makefile.PL time
  • Mimick Perl 5's behaviour for function that defaults to $_