CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/parrot

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

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   he
Date:           Tue Jul  3 13:29:25 UTC 2012

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot: Makefile distinfo

Log Message:
Update to parrot version 4.2.0.

Upstream changes:

 - API Changes
    + The signature of getprop was changed from (PMC,String,PMC) to
      (PMC, PMC,String) for consistency
 - Core
    + Parrot Calling Conventions (pcc) now reuses Continuation PMCs
      internally, which reduces GC work by 25% and improves
      the fib.pir benchmark by 6%
    + Winxed snapshot updated to 1.6.devel 44a04cfa7b
    + Improved the detection of Clang-ish compilers during configuration
    + Fixed a possible segfault bug when reading packfiles with no
     constants or main_sub
    + By default, Parrot has now elevated these GCC warnings to errors
      during compile time:
        implicit-function-declaration, undef, missing-braces,
        nested externs, old-style-definition, strict-prototypes,
    + The OS Dynamic PMC now has separate functions to unlink a file
      and remove an empty directory (rmdir)
    + Fix building on Cygwin due to an improperly named DLL file
    + Various small bug fixes pointed out by static and dynamic analysis
      tools
 - Branches
    + Work on M0 continues now in the m0 branch, which contains both
      implementations (currently C and Perl) and specification.
    + Good progress has been made on the threads branch which builds
      on the green_threads branch. This gets Parrot much closer to
      being able to utilize multiple CPU cores seemlessly. More details
      at http://niner.name/Hybrid_Threads_for_the_Parrot_VM.pdf
 - Documentation
    + New release manager documentation for parrot.github.com :
        http://git.io/parrot-github-guide
 - Community
    + Parrot was accepted to Google Summer of Code 2012!
      Ideas Page: http://git.io/parrot-gsoc-2012


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.58 -r1.59 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.47 -r1.48 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/distinfo

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