Parrot 0.4.1 "Foghorn Leghorn" Released!

January 8, 2006

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly release of Parrot. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us.

What is Parrot?

Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl 6 and other dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.4.1 changes and news

Installation: 'make install' is using standard locations now (/usr/local is the default --prefix)
Produce static and shared libraries on some systems
Configure system rearragement
OS pmc started (mkdir,cd,cwd,rm,umask,stat)
Shootout examples
Test files are now testable with 'prove'
Smoke (and smokej) outputs progress
PIR supports: I = A < B (>,<=,>=,==,!=)
Add support for octal number constants
partcl updates:
- almost finish [string]; start [file]
- add build tool for generating inline'd tcl builtins from templates.
Jako updates: NCI, subroutines, global variables and constants all work. (Gregor)

After some pause you can grab it from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.4.1.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html.

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

Have fun!
leo