CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/parrot

[Havard Eidnes <he%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   he
Date:           Fri Sep 24 08:36:17 UTC 2010

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot: Makefile PLIST distinfo

Log Message:
Update parrot to version 2.8.0.

Pkgsrc changes:
 o Adapt to new package contents.

Upstream changes:

- Core
  + Inlined hashing and comparison functions
  + Hash memory allocation moved from system malloc to lazy allocated
  + Avoided infinite catching of exceptions while dying from exception
  + Some svn fixes
  + Added a check for duplicate vtable entries in PMCs
  + Building Parrot with Perl 5.12 and gcc-4.5 / g++-4.5
  + Eliminated cruft left over after dynops_mapping
  + Improved charset and string encoding
  + Better organisation of programs by reposition it to "tools/build"
    and "tools/release"
  + Implemented Exception clone vtable function
  + Added experimental function Parrot_getpid and getpid method
  + --gc-threshold command line argument added, which controls the %
    of memory wasted by the GC
  + Closed a lot of tickets
- Testing
  + Added more core pmc tests
  + Rearranged some tests with C coverage
  + We now have Smolder back, at http://smolder.parrot.org . Submit
    reports with "make smoke"
  + skip_all implementation in Parrot's Test::More completed
- GitMigration
  + Set up a test site for github trac plugin at http://mksig.org/trac/
  + Code of Trac plugin at github is on http://github.com/cotto/github-trac
  + Parrot is now mirrored on github at http://github.com/parrot/parrot
- Compilers
  + Fixed problem with imcc HLL in load_bytecode difference between
    loading a pbc and compiling a pir


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.36 -r1.37 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/PLIST
cvs rdiff -u -r1.30 -r1.31 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/distinfo

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