Update to 0.4.0, provided by Anders Nor Berle in PR 32448.

New in 0.4.0
- New lexical handling and closure support including better
  introspection for caller and outer
- PGE (Parrot Grammar Engine) provides now compilers for P6Rule,
  P6Grammar, P5Regexp, and Glob
- ca. 1000 new tests including 800 for Perl5 regexp
- Improved unicode charset and encoding support
- Calling conventions for exception handlers
- Punie (Perl 1) uses TGE (Tree Grammar Engine) to convert from
  PGE match objects to AST via two steps of tree transformation grammars
- New languages: amber and lua
- The usual code fixes, cleanup, and improvements, including an overhaul
  of the config and test framework

New in 0.3.1

- Variable sized register frames are finished. Each subroutine gets
  the amount of registers that it actually needs. No more spilling.
- Vastly improved PGE (Parrot Grammar Engine) including shift-reduce,
  precedence-based expression parser and support for matching of
  bracketed text delimited by e.g. ()[]{}'"
- uniccode character classification (is_upper ...)
- support for heredoc syntax in assembler
- improved examples, basic JSON support
- debian packaging support
- the usual improvements, bug fixes, and cleanup
- test count exceeds 3000

New in 0.3.0

- New calling conventions implemented: see PDD03 for details
- Merge multiple Parrot bytecode (PBC) files into a singe PBC file
- 'make smoke' target going beta
- bc now supports if statements, comparison ops, prefix inc/dec
- ParTcl adds [lassign], [switch] (partially); [expr] converted to a compiler
- Many exciting doc updates, tests, and bugfixes, too numerous to mention

New in 0.2.3

- Dynamic classes now compile on Windows (including ParTcl)
- New Super PMC allows easy access to superclass methods
- Implement C3 method resolution order (just like Perl6 & Python)
- ParTcl has new PIR-based parser and passes more Tcl tests
- added character class support in Globs to PGE
- added language implementations of unlambda, Lazy-k
- many bugfixes, including GC and memory leaks
- the new calling scheme continued to evolve in branches/leo-ctx5

New in 0.2.2

- new call scheme: docs/pdds/pdd03_calling_conventions.pod
- partial implementation of the new calling conventions
  PASM only, don't mix PIR foo() call syntax with the new scheme
- grammar and rule support in PGE - the Parrot Grammar Engine
- TCL passes >10% of the tcl test suite
- the usual bugfixes and improvements

New in 0.2.1

- better HLL support (short names for object attributes, and
  .HLL and n_operators pragmas)
- string encoding and charset can now be set independently
- experimental mmap IO layer for slurping files
- distinct debug and trace flag settings
- glob support in PGE
- new character classification opcodes and interfaces

New in 0.2.0

- parrot repository is now under subversion
- MMD (Multi Method Dispatch) enhanced
- new unary and infix opcodes that return new result PMCs
- dynamic scalar PMCs inherit now almost all from Parrot core PMCs
- more unification of PMCs and ParrotObjects
- tailcalls for functions and methods
- PGE (Parrot Grammar Engine) reworked
- Pugs creates Parrot code and Pugs is a registered compiler now
- new languages/lisp
- the usual bug fixes and improvements

New in 0.1.2

- New string handling code. Strings now have charset and encoding
- Parts of a generation garbage collector
- Better Python code, separated in dynclasses
- Parrot Grammar Engine
- Improved test coverage and documentation

New in 0.1.1

Parrot 0.1.1 is an intermediate release with tons of updates and fixes.
 - Python support: Parrot runs 4/7 of the pie-thon test suite
 - Better OS support: more platforms, compiler, OS functions
 - Improved PIR syntax for method calls and <op>= assignment
 - Dynamic loading reworked including a "make install" target
 - MMD - multi method dispatch for binary vtable methods
 - Library improvement and cleanup
 - BigInt, Complex, *Array, Slice, Enumerate, None PMC classes
 - IA64 and hppa JIT support
 - Tons of fixes, improvements, new tests, and documentation updates.
A lot is unfinished and keeps changing. Nethertheless Parrot is stable
and usable at the surface, while internals are moving.

New in 0.1.0
 - "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!"
 - Huge documentation overhaul
 - More supported platforms, s. PLATFORMS
 - Basic thread support for pthread based architectures
 - Basic event handling for timers and signals including:
 - PASM callbacks for NCI (native C) functions.
 - Improved platform configuration
 - COW stacks now working, stacks code redone
 - Structure handling vastly improved
 - Random PMC and rand primitives
 - Better subroutine call syntax in PIR
 - Make PIR subroutines compliant with pdd03
 - Improved profiling (DOD, GC timings)
 - Hash code improvements, incl. random key order support
 - Experimental freeze/thaw code for some PMC types
 - IO improvements for buffered layer and Win32
 - String iterators
 - String bitwise vtables
 - Many new opcodes
 - Support for JIT, where malloced memory isn't executable
 - Priority DOD scheme for objects that need timely destruction
 - Improved byte code loading (e.g. onLoad functions)
 - Language updates: forth, Perl6/P6C, m4
 - Libraries: Getopt_Long, SDL, Dumper, Sort
 - new JAPH examples
 - Unified imcc and parrot test handling
 - Many new tests (make test reports 1386 tests)
 - Numerous bug fixes

New in 0.0.13
 - The Big Move: Parrot source and build files rearranged into sub dirs
 - Build imcc as parrot
 - Objects more finished
 - Delegate vtable methods to byte code
 - Binary multi-method dispatching
 - Isa and does methods for PMCs
 - Call byte code from C
 - Start of extension interface
 - Experimental struct handling
 - Catch access to NULL PMCs
 - Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes
 - IO fixes and improvements
 - Dynamic opcode libraries
 - Fix-assigned opcode numbers
 - Argument flattening for function calls
 - More native call interface (NCI) signatures
 - Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries
 - Forth language is vastly improved
 - BSD and Win32 build improvements
 - Many new tests and fixes

New in 0.0.12
 - This number intentionally left blank

New in 0.0.11
 - Executable output
 - Dynamic PMC registration
 - Trial exception system
 - Beginnings of object system
 - Iterators
 - Ordered hashes
 - I/O system improvements
 - References
 - Documentation for basic PMC types
 - IMCC support of Parrot Calling Conventions
 - Runtime loading of chartypes (and other string improvements)
 - Conditional breakpoints
 - Dramatically accelerated sweeps for finalizable objects
 - Small PMCs (PMCs split into core and extensions)
 - Loadable bytecode packfiles
 - Constant PMCs
 - Sub variants that deal with the stack correctly
 - Switched runops core
 - Line numbers in warnings
 - Environment access
 - Many documentation cleanups
 - Conversion to CPS style!
 - BASIC debugger and many other wacky features
 - Filename, line number parsing support in IMCC

New in 0.0.10
 - IMCC integration
 - eval
 - some more benchmarking
 - cgp core
 - optimized math ops
 - intersegment branches
 - more complete use of PObjs
 - beefed up packfiles
 - sub/continuation/coroutine fixes
 - better NCI (native calling interface)
 - many imcc improvements
 - jako improvements

New in 0.0.9

- Native function calling interface (Dan)
- Stack/list aggregate rewrite (Leo)
- Scratchpads (Jonathan Sillito)
- Preliminary DotGNU support -- type conversion ops (Gopal V + Leo)
- Buffer/PMC unification (Leo)
- stabs debugging support for JIT (Leo)
- Jako overhaul (Gregor)
- Optional Lea allocator (Leo)
- Parrot sprintf (Brent)
- Miniparrot (Josh)
- PMC Properties (Dan)
- Various JIT improvements (D. Grunblatt + Leo)
- Extensible packfiles (Juergen)
- Restructured PMC hierarchy (Leo)
- Real Scheme (Juergen)

New in 0.0.8

- Several new grammars and a BNF -> perl5 and perl6 converter (Jeff)
- Working Perl6 REs (Sean)
- Keyed Access (Tom Hughes et al)
- New PMCs (Alberto et al)
- Better Documentation
- New COW semantics
- GC acceleration (Mike Lambert)
- Lexical scope (Jonathan Sillito)
- IMCC patches
- JIT for the ARM

New in 0.0.7

- Perl 6 Grammar and Compiler (Sean)
- Subroutines, coroutines, and continuations (Melvin)
- GC improvements (Peter Gibbs, Mike Lambert)
- Global variables (Melvin)
- Intermediate bytecode compiler (Melvin, Angel)
- And much, much more.

New in 0.0.6

- New assembler that support keyed types (Jeff)
- New macro layer, allowing constants (Jeff)
- New Configure.pl (Brent)
- Changes to bytecode format, endian issues resolved (Melvin)
- GC improvements and bug fixes (Peter Gibbs, Mike Lambert)
- JIT compiler rewrite (Jason and Daniel)
- Parrot assembler in Parrot (Daniel)
- Parrot debugger (Daniel)
- BASIC polished, Eliza.bas is new (Clint)
- Cola compiler committed and working, with limited OOP (Melvin)
- Keyed aggregates (Steve Fink)
- Global ops (Melvin)
- Compile-time speedup (Melvin)
- Much documentation
- New PDDs (Dan)
- Contributed tetris and lzw files
- And many more, from the cast of thousands

New in 0.0.5

- Full GC
- Perl Scalar support in PMCs
- Array and Hash types almost ready for prime-time
- Internal support for keyed types
- EMACS editing mode
- New PDDs
- New Language - BASIC
- Regular expression compiler
- More tests
- Many, many bug fixes, enhancements, and speedups

New in 0.0.4

- Arena-based memory allocation system
- Copying GC
- New IO subsystem
- "Predereferencing" mode - ./parrot -P - 22% speedup
- JIT compiler - ./parrot -j
- Parrot now builds warnings-clean on many platforms
- Many more PMC methods implemented
- Regular expression operations
- Added a FAQ
- Basic support for embedding Parrot in other programs
- Warnings support
- Added PDDs to distribution
- Bignum library

- PMC inheritance
- Added an assembly optimizer
- Improved string encoding/type support
- Many more tests
- Source reformatting
- Major refactoring in packfile library
- More Miniperl functionality
- New PMC "clone" operator
- Beginnings of key-based access to PMCs - arrays and hashes
- MOPS comparisons in examples/mops/

New in 0.0.3

- PMCs!
- Perl base scalar types implemented
- A new minilanguage, Scheme
- Much improved documentation
- Register stacks pushing and popping
- User stack pushing, popping and rotating
- Jako updates: subroutines, more example programs, optimizations
- test_prog renamed to 'parrot'

- Added features to the assembler: @ for current location, and global
  labels
- Build tweaks for VMS
- Bytecode typing clean-ups
- More platforms: OS X, HPUX, OS/2
- The proliferation of runops cores reduced to one fast and one slow one
- Opcode tracing, bounds checking, profiling
- Vastly improved string support, with separation of encoding and
  charset
- Lots more tests
- Multiple interpreter creation support - the beginnings of threading
- Much better resource handling - the beginnings of GC

New in 0.0.2

- Parrot now works on all core platforms
- A large number of tests, in the standard Perl testing framework
- A new minilanguage (Jako) which compiles to Parrot assembly
- Documentation about the assembly language (docs/parrot_assembly.pod)

- Separate modules for assembly (Parrot::Assemble) and bytecode
  manipulation (Parrot::PackFile::*, packfile.c)
- Assembler completely rewritten
- Better operand-type guessing in the assembler
- Assembler support for '\n' etc. in string constants
- Code reformatted to match the coding standards
- New ops for register-constant INTEGER comparisons
- Macro expansion in the assembler
- IVs and NVs renamed to more friendly INTVAL and NUMVAL
- Hard-coded pack("") formats removed
- Better handling of floating-point numbers in assembler
- Moved floats to constant table (fixing many alignment issues)

4 files changed, 233 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aa b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aa
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eae85c66886
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-aa
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.1 2006/01/03 19:25:06 wiz Exp $
+
+--- MANIFEST.orig	Tue Jan  3 00:31:28 2006
++++ MANIFEST	Tue Jan  3 00:33:10 2006
+@@ -716,74 +716,74 @@
+ imcc/symreg.c                                     []
+ imcc/symreg.h                                     []
+ imcc/unit.h                                       []
+-include/parrot/autoprefix.h                       [main]
+-include/parrot/builtin.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/caches.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/cclass.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/charset.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/datatypes.h                        [main]
+-include/parrot/debug.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/dod.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/dynext.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/embed.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/encoding.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/enums.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/events.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/exceptions.h                       [main]
+-include/parrot/exec.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/exec_save.h                        [main]
+-include/parrot/exit.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/extend.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/global.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/global_setup.h                     [main]
+-include/parrot/hash.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/headers.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/hll.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/inter_call.h                       [main]
+-include/parrot/interp_guts.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/interpreter.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/intlist.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/io.h                               [main]
+-include/parrot/jit.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/key.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/library.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/list.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/longopt.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/memory.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/method_util.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/misc.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/mmd.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/nci.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/objects.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/op.h                               [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/packfile.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/parrot.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/perltypes.h                        [main]
+-include/parrot/pic.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/pmc.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/pmc_freeze.h                       [main]
+-include/parrot/pobj.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/register.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/resources.h                        [main]
+-include/parrot/runops_cores.h                     [main]
+-include/parrot/settings.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/slice.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/smallobject.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/stacks.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/stat.h                             [main]
+-include/parrot/string.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/string_funcs.h                     [main]
+-include/parrot/string_primitives.h                [main]
+-include/parrot/sub.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/thr_pthread.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/thr_windows.h                      [main]
+-include/parrot/thread.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/trace.h                            [main]
+-include/parrot/tsq.h                              [main]
+-include/parrot/unicode.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/vtables.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/warnings.h                         [main]
++include/parrot/autoprefix.h                       [main]include
++include/parrot/builtin.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/caches.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/cclass.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/charset.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/datatypes.h                        [main]include
++include/parrot/debug.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/dod.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/dynext.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/embed.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/encoding.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/enums.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/events.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/exceptions.h                       [main]include
++include/parrot/exec.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/exec_save.h                        [main]include
++include/parrot/exit.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/extend.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/global.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/global_setup.h                     [main]include
++include/parrot/hash.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/headers.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/hll.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/inter_call.h                       [main]include
++include/parrot/interp_guts.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/interpreter.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/intlist.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/io.h                               [main]include
++include/parrot/jit.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/key.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/library.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/list.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/longopt.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/memory.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/method_util.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/misc.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/mmd.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/nci.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/objects.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/op.h                               [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/packfile.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/parrot.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/perltypes.h                        [main]include
++include/parrot/pic.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/pmc.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/pmc_freeze.h                       [main]include
++include/parrot/pobj.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/register.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/resources.h                        [main]include
++include/parrot/runops_cores.h                     [main]include
++include/parrot/settings.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/slice.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/smallobject.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/stacks.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/stat.h                             [main]include
++include/parrot/string.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/string_funcs.h                     [main]include
++include/parrot/string_primitives.h                [main]include
++include/parrot/sub.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/thr_pthread.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/thr_windows.h                      [main]include
++include/parrot/thread.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/trace.h                            [main]include
++include/parrot/tsq.h                              [main]include
++include/parrot/unicode.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/vtables.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/warnings.h                         [main]include
+ io/io.c                                           []
+ io/io_buf.c                                       []
+ io/io_layers.c                                    []
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ab b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ab
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..33dbd857f25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ab
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1 2006/01/03 19:25:06 wiz Exp $
+
+--- MANIFEST.generated.orig	Sun Dec  4 13:23:09 2005
++++ MANIFEST.generated	Tue Jan  3 15:19:45 2006
+@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
+ installable_parrot                                [main]bin
+-pdump                                             [main]bin
+ pdump_shared                                      [main]bin
+-pdb                                               [main]bin
+ pdb_shared                                        [main]bin
+-pbc_info                                          [main]bin
+ pbc_info_shared                                   [main]bin
+-pbc_merge                                         [main]bin
+ pbc_merge_shared                                  [main]bin
+-disassemble                                       [main]bin
+ disassemble_shared                                [main]bin
+-blib/lib/libparrot.a                              [main]lib
+-blib/lib/libparrot.so.0.4.0                       [main]lib
+ runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Base.pbc       [main]
+ runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Default.pbc    [main]
+ runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper.pbc            [main]
+@@ -60,22 +53,22 @@
+ runtime/parrot/include/tm.pasm                    [main]
+ runtime/parrot/include/vtable_methods.pasm        [main]
+ runtime/parrot/include/warnings.pasm              [main]
+-include/parrot/config.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/core_pmcs.h                        [main]
+-include/parrot/exec_dep.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/extend_vtable.h                    [main]
+-include/parrot/feature.h                          [main]
+-include/parrot/has_header.h                       [main]
+-include/parrot/jit_emit.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/platform.h                         [main]
+-include/parrot/platform_interface.h               [main]
+-include/parrot/string_private_cstring.h           [main]
+-include/parrot/vtable.h                           [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib/core_ops.h                   [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_cg.h                [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_cgp.h               [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_switch.h            [main]
+-include/parrot/oplib/ops.h                        [main]
++include/parrot/config.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/core_pmcs.h                        [main]include
++include/parrot/exec_dep.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/extend_vtable.h                    [main]include
++include/parrot/feature.h                          [main]include
++include/parrot/has_header.h                       [main]include
++include/parrot/jit_emit.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/platform.h                         [main]include
++include/parrot/platform_interface.h               [main]include
++include/parrot/string_private_cstring.h           [main]include
++include/parrot/vtable.h                           [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib/core_ops.h                   [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_cg.h                [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_cgp.h               [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib/core_ops_switch.h            [main]include
++include/parrot/oplib/ops.h                        [main]include
+ docs/ops/bit.pod                                  [main]doc
+ docs/ops/cmp.pod                                  [main]doc
+ docs/ops/core.pod                                 [main]doc
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ac b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ac
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8aced88aeea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ac
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-ac,v 1.1 2006/01/03 19:25:06 wiz Exp $
+
+--- config/init/hints/freebsd.pm.orig	Sun Nov 13 23:34:12 2005
++++ config/init/hints/freebsd.pm	Tue Dec 27 09:27:08 2005
+@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@
+     $libs .= ' -pthread';
+ }
+ else {
+-    $libs =~ s/-lc\b\s*//;
+-    $libs .= ' -lc_r';
++    $libs .= ' -lpthread';
+ }
+ 
+ Parrot::Configure::Data->set(
diff --git a/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ad b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ad
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f9bb3d1ee63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ad
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$NetBSD: patch-ad,v 1.1 2006/01/03 19:25:06 wiz Exp $
+
+--- tools/dev/install_files.pl.orig	Tue Jan  3 15:03:48 2006
++++ tools/dev/install_files.pl	Tue Jan  3 15:04:31 2006
+@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
+         $dest = File::Spec->catdir($options{libdir}, $dest);
+     } elsif ($meta{bin}) {
+ 	$dest =~ s/^installable_//;	# parrot with different config
++	$dest =~ s/_shared$//;		# shared binaries shouldn't be named _shared
+         $dest = File::Spec->catdir($options{bindir}, $dest);
+         if ($exe) {
+            $src .= $exe;