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Straw man (Score:2)
I don't think chromatic is proposing that Perl start break back compat willy nilly. He's been quite clear that he wants to see Perl on a time-based release cycle with published deprecation schedules.
Imagine if Perl release 4 times a year. Then if there was a desire to deprecate something, a release could say "feature X will be removed after 6 more releases, 18 months from now".
That seems pretty reasonable.
Furthermore, no one out there is jumping from 5.6 to 5.10 without some serious testing. Even with Perl'
Straw men lack JFDI (Score:2)
I don't disagree with anything you say. Heck, I agree with it.
But
I tried it. This is me. I have made m
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, clearly the problem isn't (just) a lack of will. I'm not a Perl 5 core dev, so obviously I don't know all the details.
So why couldn't you sustain it? Is there some reason preparing a release is so much work? How do Gnome and Ubuntu and other projects do it? More people? More money?
One thing I have wondered is why we can't get a few paid people working on Perl 5. You'd think that there are enough companies out there depending on it that they'd be willing to kick in $10,000 per year each to TPF, and TPF
Re:Straw men lack JFDI (Score:1)
Yeah, clearly the problem isn't (just) a lack of will. I'm not a Perl 5 core dev, so obviously I don't know all the details.
So why couldn't you sustain it? Is there some reason preparing a release is so much work?
There was a long thread on p5p about regular releases for perl. I think this message is a good point to start reading (if I remember correctly): http://markmail.org/message/w4zbguq4cjitfvcb [markmail.org]
One thing I have wondered is why we can't get a few paid people working on Perl 5. You'd think that there are enough companies out there depending on it that they'd be willing to kick in $10,000 per year each to TPF, and TPF in turn could hire a couple people.
It would be great if companies would give some money to TPF. If you look at the donations page [perlfoundation.org] of the perlfoundation site, you'll see that there are not that many big donations (I know that booking.com gave $50,000 to TPF last year [hsyndicate.org] - thanks! But such donations are rare).
Nevertheless TPF gave a grant to Dave Mitchell for releasing Perl 5.10.1 [perlfoundation.org].
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