CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/parrot

["Jens Rehsack" <sno%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   sno
Date:           Fri Sep 13 10:40:59 UTC 2013

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot: Makefile PLIST PLIST.Darwin PLIST.shared
            buildlink3.mk distinfo
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches: patch-ad
Added Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot: version.mk
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches: patch-aa

Log Message:
Updating lang/parrot from 4.8.0nb4 to 5.7.0 (for scheduled nqp and
raduko * imports).

pkgsrc changes:
* PLIST variable VERSION => PARROT_VERSION
* add PLIST awk rule to replace parrot's version string with
  ${PARROT_VERSION}
* add a fix for build on MacOS X 10.8

Upstream changes since 4.8.0:
2013-08-20    release 5.7.0
    - Build
        + Fixed GH#976 - Cannot load PCRE library during install on gentoo x64.
    - Community
        + All three of our GSoC students passed their midterms, and are
          on track to complete their Parrot and Perl 6 projects on time.
          Congratulations to Saurabh Kumar, Pawe�<82> Murias, and Denis Boyun!

2013-07-16    release 5.6.0
    - Build
        + Makefile dependencies are now compatible with VMS make.
    - Documentation
        + The main README is now more helpful.

2013-06-18    release 5.5.0
    - Build
        + Configure options are now allowed to be quoted.
        + Fixed build on Win32.
        + Updated location of NQP on Win32.
        + Fixed Parrot::Distribution detection.
    - Documentation
        + Noted that RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES is mostly out of date.
    - Tests
        + Stopped testing native PBC on 64bit LE, due to lack of access to
          such machine.
    - Release
        + Added tool: make_upload_commands.pl
    - Community
        + Parrot has been awarded 3 student slots in Google Summer of Code 2013!
          This means that 3 lucky students will be on a paid internship from
          Google to work on these accepted proposals:
          = Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 release"
              https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408
              
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/saurabh_kgp/11002
          = Pawe�<82> Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
            
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/pmurias/9002
          = Denis Boyun  - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
              https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762
              
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/chob_rock/9001
        + YAPC::NA::2013 hosted 4 days of Hackathon, focusing on the next
          generation of Perl implementations.
          = Huge Success!
        + MoarVM was unveiled:
            https://github.com/MoarVM
        + P2 on Potion was debuted:
            http://perl11.org/p2/

2013-05-21    release 5.4.0
    - Core
        + Implemented the coth() and acot() math functions.
        + Fixed chomp to only trim a newline when it ends the string. [GH #958]
        + Added readlink() and Parrot_file_readlink(), with tests. [GH #967]
    - Build
        + Parrot now detects the CPU model on Linux systems, as well as
          detecting more CPU models on BSD, Cygwin, Solaris, Win32, and Darwin.
          ARM v7 is also now recognized. [GH #962]
    - Documentation
        + Threads examples now have proper POD sections and useful descriptions
          with links to references.
        + Added main description for Task PMC.
        + Added descriptions to trig methods in Float PMC.
    - Tests
        + Added improved test coverage targets "cover_new" and "fullcover_new".
        + Improved tests for acot(), coth(), acot() math functions.
        + Added tests for options passed to debugger.
        + Updated native PBC test files for string, number, and integer,
          which resolved 11 TODOs in the test suite. [GH #959]
        + Fixed test for the auto/arch config step.
    - Release process
        + Added message digests to crow.pir.
        + Added in release.json: "release.type" can be "devel" or "supported".
        + Refactored common code to sub in auto_release.pl.
    - Community
        + Parrot is part of the Hackathon at YAPC::NA::2013, in Austin, TX, USA!
            http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/wiki?node=Hackathons
        + Parrot has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2013!
        + Currently there are two high-quality proposals being worked on:
            https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408        - parrot-libgit2
            https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762 - App::Parrot::Create

2013-04-16    release 5.3.0
    - Build
        + Files generated by `make cover` are now correctly cleaned by `make`
          and ignored by `git`.
    - Tests
        + Internal testing of the Configure probe for Fink now works correctly
          with the --verbose flag.
        + Tests added for .sort method of ResizableFloatArray and
          ResizableIntegerArray. [GH #926], [GH #927]
        + Benchmarks added for .sort methods of various Array objects.
          [GH #175]
        + Coverage analysis added for pbc_disassemble.

2013-03-19    release 5.2.0
    - Core
        + IO now only syncs buffers for the IO types where syncing makes sense.
            = PIO_VF_SYNC_IO flag added
    - Build
        + installable_pdump now has the correct rpath (blib corrected to lib).
    - Libraries
        + Tcl/Glob.pir has been removed. (PGE/Glob.pir remains intact)
    - Ecosystem
        + All Parrot tarballs are now symlinked to the 'all' directory,
          regardless of their true homes ('devel' or 'stable'), to better
          allow for automated downloads.
            ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/all/

2013-02-19    release 5.1.0
    - Core
        + The .sort() method was added to the FixedFloatArray PMC
        + Improved detection of system memory for machines with >2GB
        + Improved pbc_to_exe support for spacey paths
        + Fixed Parrot_io_readall_s allocating too much string space
    - Build
        + Fixed generated MANIFEST files to omit $destdir
    - Documentation
    - Tests
        + .readall now checks that prior reads are respected.
    - Community
        + Weekly IRC meetings have resumed. #parrotsketch Tuesdays at 1930 UTC

2013-01-22    release 5.0.0
    - Core
        + Remove duplicate library search path entries, move "." from the 
beginning to
          the end. [GH #368]
        + Install forgotten runtime include files:
          cloneflags.pasm
          packfile_annotation_keytype.pasm
          packfile_segments.pasm
        + Install include/parrot/pbcversion.h with the main package, not devel.
        + Install headers for dynpmc files.
        + Install libraries tgc.pbc, NCI/Utils.pbc, OpenGL/Math.pbc, 
PCT/Dumper.pbc,
          postgres.pbc, ProfTest.pbc and ProfTest/*pbc, String/Utils.pbc, 
URI/Escape.pbc,
          YAML/Dumper/Base.pbc, YAML/Dumper/Default.pbc
        + New experimental PARROT_DYNEXT environment variable
        + New experimental dynext_dirs config entry (same as PARROT_DYNEXT and 
-X)
        + Add OS error messages to FileHandle.open() error messages [GH #911]
    - Build
        + Generate MANIFEST.generated, cleanup MANIFEST,
          removed MANIFEST_configure.generated, add installation of forgotten 
files
          [GH #890]
        + perl Configure.pl now calls make clean if possible
        + Generate datadir/MANIFEST* for all installed files [GH #899]
        + Improved Configure.pl probes for --with-llvm
        + Replace / slashes with \ on windows for all Makefiles automatically.
          This improves cygwin interaction, like remote or cronjob smoking on 
windows.
        + Reenabled and fixed debugging line directives in pmc2c, ops2c not yet 
[GH #641]
    - Tools
        + Improved nci_thunk_gen (v0.02): handle void sig, add declaration
        + Fixed nci examples
    - Documentation
        + Re-added docs/ops, the generated ops summary and docs/packfile-c.pod
        + Improved pdd10_embedding
        + Document FileHandle.open() exceptions and error messages
    - Tests
        + Added t/library/lib_search_path.t

2012-12-18    release 4.11.0
    - Core
        + Parrot now supports fast and lightweight OS threads, based on Nat 
Tucks's
          initial GSoC work on green threads and then Stefan Seifert's extension
          to true parallel OS threads as hybrid threads.
          See 
http://wknight8111.blogspot.co.at/2010/08/gsoc-threads-chandons-results.html
          and http://niner.name/Hybrid_Threads_for_the_Parrot_VM.pdf
          Summary: 
http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/day-11-parrot-threads/
        + New parrot cmdline option --numthreads
        + Export new dynpmc_class_<ClassName> types [GH #870].
        + Changed core_ops library format and ops2c to contain the PBC_COMPAT 
only,
          not the parrot version triple. Removed the duplicate 
PARROT_DYNOP_CORE_INIT
          cpp definition in include/parrot/oplib/core_ops.h, use only
          PARROT_CORE_OPLIB_INIT from config.h
        + Store PBC_MAJOR and PBC_MINOR in the config hash, stored by 
auto::revision
        + Added getprotobyname method to the Socket PMC
    - Documentation
        + Marked unused API parameters
        + Install man pages for all binaries
    - Languages
        + nqp-rx tests updated from perl6/nqp-rx.git, and enabled to run on 
make test
    - Platforms
        + More compilation fixes on Windows without working mt.exe or 
ranlib=rem,
          enable smoking without git binary.
    - Tools
        + Re-enabled pbc_dump -h --header-only
        + Improved pmc2c, added more UNUSED(arg) macros [GH #836]. Parrot is 
now almost
          -Wunused-parameters safe.
    - Tests
        + failing Pod::Simple pod_todo.t tests are now skipped
        + added nqp-rx tests
        + removed duplicate ext/nqp-rx/t/p6regex tests
        + rewrote and enabled native_pbc tests [GH #394],
          renamed native_pbc testfiles

2012-11-21    release 4.10.0
    - Core
        + Add PMCNULL check to result_info op
        + Fixed record separator bug on io handles
    - Build
        + Add -fpermissive so that nqp builds under gcc 4.7.2
        + Fixed warnings for old ICU 4.4
    - Platforms
        + More VMS fixes, but not yet done
    - Branches
        + The threads branch is ready to be merged, but nqp needs some changes,
          so it will be merged with 4.11.0.
    - Examples
        + Parrot mini-web server fixes

2012-10-16    release 4.9.0
    - Core
        + Keep encoding information in the imcc optimizer, which fixes the
          concat op but probably many more cases with non-ascii encoded
          constant strings. [GH #837]
        + Fixed ByteBuffer set_string_native, which became out of sync with
          two internal buffers. [GH #835]
        + Preload Configure steps when called with perl -d Configure.pl [GH 
#833]
        + Strip unneeded config keys from installed config hash. Saves 6360
          bytes from every installed executable. [GH #824]
        + Parrot_get_cpu_type returns now "unknown" for all unknown cpu types.
          On non-windows it returned before 4.9.0 a null string. [GH #846]
        + Fixed src/hash.c for platforms where size_t is unsigned (e.g. vms) 
[GH #854]
    - Build
        + Improved warnings for clang. [GH #843]
        + Cleaned wrong UNUSED(arg) macros in all pmc's due to an improved
          pmc2c compiler, which SHIMs all UNUSED args. [GH #836]
        + Added clang++ support and a new auto::alignof Configure step. [GH 
#844]
        + Fixed auto::inline for C++ compilers
        + Improved auto::llvm
    - Branches
        + The threads branch is almost ready to be merged. Some remaining races
          have been fixed. There are only some remaining platforms errors on
          darwin/x86.
    - Libraries
        + Fixed Mime::Base64: Split long lines at 76 chars. [GH #826]
          Support multi-byte codepoints. Use binary encoding,
          encoded files are now endian specific [GH #813 + #814],
          Added 2nd optional encoding arg to decode_base64().
    - Documentation
        + Cleaned up removed parrot cmdline options -D/-O/-v from --help output 
and
          running.pod [GH #838]
    - Tools
        + Improved gdb pretty-printing for multi-byte strings


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.72 -r1.73 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/PLIST
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/PLIST.Darwin \
    pkgsrc/lang/parrot/PLIST.shared
cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/buildlink3.mk
cvs rdiff -u -r1.54 -r1.55 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/distinfo
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/version.mk
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.6 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aa
cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ad

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