---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Polulak On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.8.0, also known as "Magrathea". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 3.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.8.0/), or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 3.8.0 News: - Core + New tools/release/auto_release.pl script automates most of release - Languages + Winxed - Updated snapshot to version 1.2.0 - allowtailcall modifier in try --debug command-line option, __DEBUG__ predefined constant and __ASSERT__ builtin - namespace, class, and ~ (bitwise not) operators - Implicit nested namespace in namespace and class declarations - -X command-line arg - Documentation + Improved release manager guide - Tests + New Makefile target "resubmit_smolder" to resubmit test results + New Makefile target "all_hll_test" runs the test suite of all HLLs and libraries known to work on Parrot + New Makefile target "interop_tests" run language interoperability tests, which runs as part of the normal "make test" as well The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: f26d9c1a5d7723b1e778394f87f8bb993e188fb05a719a78eb0204612329cd75 parrot-3.8.0.tar.bz2 ae10e52eaf150870949aa51c7588e3a09f8f0588c9e0a7a76c2201672b7c5c7a parrot-3.8.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 18 October 2011. Enjoy! Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 634784, section 5a. Entry: Magrathea Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and reward among the farthest reaches of Galactic space. In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before – and thus was the Empire forged. Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor – at least no one worth speaking of. And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on. None of them was entirely satisfactory: either the climate wasn't quite right in the later part of the afternoon, or the day was half an hour too long, or the sea was exactly the wrong shade of pink. And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of specialist industry; custom-made luxury planet building. The home of this industry was the planet Magrathea, where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets – gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes – all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy's richest men naturally came to expect. But so successful was this venture that Magrathea itself soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject poverty. And so the system broke down, the Empire collapsed, and a long sullen silence settled over a billion hungry worlds, disturbed only by the pen scratchings of scholars as they labored into the night over smug little treatises on the value of a planned political economy. Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of it. -- - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa) _______________________________________________ Parrot-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-users -- Diego Saravia [email protected] NO FUNCIONA->[email protected] ==================================================================== "Disclaimer:" Haré lo que desee con los correos que reciba, quien no este de acuerdo, que se abstenga de enviarme correo a mí o a las listas donde este suscripto. En particular NO VALE ningun "disclaimer" que indique que el correo enviado es privado o sujeto a normas de empresas, gobiernos, u organizaciones de cualquier tipo. Con relación a los estados y sus leyes, analizare cualquier norma aplicable en el territorio donde eventualmente actúe en el momento, escucho a cualquiera que tenga algo que decir. 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