[Solar-general] Fwd: [Parrot-users] Parrot 3.8.0 "Magrathea" Released

Mie Sep 21 14:39:34 CEST 2011

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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)

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