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Stéphane Micheloud | 27 Jul 16:53
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[ANN] Scala-2.6.0-RC1

We are pleased to announce version 2.6.0-RC1 of the Scala distribution:

1) It introduces some language changes.

     http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/changelog.html#v2.6.0

     - Existential types (new keyword "forSome")
     - Lazy values (new keyword "lazy")
     - Structural types
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     - etc.

2) It fixes many bugs both in the compiler and the libraries.

     http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.6.0-RC1

3) It adds new functionalities in the standard library.

     - new package scala.util.parsing.combinator
     - improvements in package scala.actors
     - additions like in class Array (new methods,
       multi-dimensional constructors)

Other release candidates may follow this version depending
on bugs reported by the Scala community (no changes/additions,
only bug fixes!); the final release (aka. 2.6.0-final) is
planned in 2-3 weeks.

Bye
-- Stephane
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Jon Pretty | 27 Jul 17:45

Re: [scala-announce] [ANN] Scala-2.6.0-RC1

Stéphane Micheloud wrote:
> We are pleased to announce version 2.6.0-RC1 of the Scala distribution:
> [...]

Thank you, Stéphane.

Attached is an ebuild for Gentoo users.

Jon

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# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# Updated by Sygneca Ltd.

DISTNAME="scala-2.6.0-RC1"
DESCRIPTION="The Scala Programming Language"
HOMEPAGE="http://scala.epfl.ch/"
SRC_URI="http://scala.epfl.ch/downloads/distrib/files/$DISTNAME.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="BSD"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
IUSE=""
DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.4"
RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.4"
S=${WORKDIR}
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Stéphane Micheloud | 27 Jul 18:08
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Re: Re: [scala-announce] [ANN] Scala-2.6.0-RC1

Hi Jon,

Just a reminder:

    Old: http://scala.epfl.ch/
    New: http://scala-lang.org/

Thanks
--Stephane

Jon Pretty wrote:
> Stéphane Micheloud wrote:
>> We are pleased to announce version 2.6.0-RC1 of the Scala distribution:
>> [...]
> 
> Thank you, Stéphane.
> 
> Attached is an ebuild for Gentoo users.
> 
> Jon
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> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # Updated by Sygneca Ltd.
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> DISTNAME="scala-2.6.0-RC1"
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Eric Willigers | 15 Aug 13:41
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Re: [scala-announce] [ANN] Scala-2.6.0-RC1

>> Stéphane Micheloud wrote:
>>> We are pleased to announce version 2.6.0-RC1 of the Scala distribution:

Hi Stéphane,

We Scala users are clearly a demanding bunch, but here's some positive 
feedback.

I've been using 2.6.0-RC1 successfully; the issues encountered and 
raised aren't causing ongoing pain, at least to me. [Hopefully any 
testers with a very different experience will jump in here, or they may 
have already mentioned that particular issues are blockers.]

We hadn't previously searched though our existing code for the old style 
(.m) and (&f) to convert it to the newer (_.m) and (f _). Using 
2.6.0-RC1 and enabling deprecation helped make the conversion quick and 
easy and permanent.

Testing our code with the latest nightly build 
2.6.0.12537.20070815-044554 showed no new problems.

Regards,
Eric.
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Jon Pretty | 27 Jul 17:59

Re: Re: [scala-announce] [ANN] Scala-2.6.0-RC1

I wrote:
> Attached is an ebuild for Gentoo users.

In addition, you will need the attached file... sorry about that!

Jon

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PATH=/opt/scala/bin
MANPATH=/opt/scala/share/man
ROOTPATH=/opt/scala/bin
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