Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released!

[Leopold Toetsch]

Parrot 0.0.13 "Screaming Pumpkin" Released!

Your new Bluza[1] proudly presents Parrot 0.0.13 Halloween edition[2].
Proposed originally as a fun release it has a remarkable list of
improvements, additions, and fixes[3].
While not really milestones are reached, many steps towards these are
done.

After some pause you can grab it from
<http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.0.13.tar.gz>
or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at
<http://dev.perl.org/cvs/>.

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

Have fun!
leo

[1] Austrian dialect word for pumpkin with some aftermath of an head
filled with water.

[2] Version number fits nicely todays date - and we don't release
by the dozen.

[3] The list of changes includes:

- The Big Move: Parrot source and build files rearranged into sub dirs
- Build imcc as parrot
- Objects more finished
- Delegate vtable methods to byte code
- Binary multi-method dispatching
- Isa and does methods for PMCs
- Call byte code from C
- Start of extension interface
- Experimental struct handling
- Catch access to NULL PMCs
- Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes
- IO fixes and improvements
- Dynamic opcode libraries
- Fix-assigned opcode numbers
- Argument flattening for function calls
- More native call interface (NCI) signatures
- Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries
- Forth language is vastly improved
- New tcl and urm languages
- BSD and Win32 build improvements
- Many new tests and fixes

[Leopold Toetsch]

While not totally through it, I'm currently making good progress in
following release instruction's 10a). Thanks to Steve to put that file
together, it went all smoothly.
I hope that all announces got it to their recipients and that everything
is working fine.

Have fun,
leo, going tonight "zum Heurigen Striezelpaschen"