Pugs 6.2.11 released!

On the first anniversary of the Pugs project, I'm delighted to announce Pugs 6.2.11 to the world.

The release tarball will be available from CPAN shortly:

     http://pugscode.org/dist/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.11.tar.gz
     SIZE = 2930469
     SHA1 = 20b46eed2161e8cec2e85ecfc6b5137c30dcd0ac

Please see http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs/2006/02/changes_for_pug.html for the full change log.  Here are some highlights:

• Lexical imports and rich module interface information in %*INC
• YAML serialization support for data structure, parse tree and ASTs
• Improved embedding and PIR generation for Parrot 0.4.1+
• Using Perl 5 modules with JavaScript backend, via "pugs -B JS-Perl5"
• PIL^N backend prototype with Class, Roles and Container objects
• A prototype implementation of 6PAN module management system

I'm very grateful to the lambdacamels for carrying Pugs forward in the past three months, which has been a difficult period of transition for me.

Now that I'm back to reality under a new-yet-original identity, I look forward to meet fellow Pugs hackers again at the upcoming hackathons: Israel, Germany, Austria, Japan, Taiwan, and undoubtedly many other places.

It has been a wonderful year.  Many happy returns! :-)

Audrey

Comments

[Doddi]

Amazing work, Audrey!
I've been lurking since day one (an entry on the Haskell Wiki IIRC).

Cheers,
Doddi

[gcom]

Congratulations and much admiration both for your work on Pugs as well as your bold and brave changes.

[Jeff]

Is interfacing Pugs with Parrot still a goal of this project? The Pugs/Parrot smoketests appear to fail the majority of the tests. What obstacles remain to make Parrot a first-class backend for Pugs?

[Audrey T]

Jeff: For next week's hackathon, I'll be focusing on targetting Perl 5, mostly because the hackathoners (including Larry) are more versed in Perl 5 than in Parrot. But next month I'll stay in Leo's place and get Parrot compilation up to speed -- the obstacles are mainly on porting the object space to Parrot, as well as a better PIR code generator from the Haskell side.