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On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com > > wrote: >> But another >> suspicion of mine is that more frequent releases will lead to more >> realistic >> deprecation policies, which in turn will lead to greater pressure for >> companies to upgrade. > > I certainly hope no one ever upgrades Perl because they are > "pressured" into it by deprecation policies. Yeah, not quite what I meant. No one is pressuring them, but if they want to continue to reap the benefits of being a part of the community, they'll want to upgrade. > If they upgrade they > should do so because Perl helps them solve a real-world problem and > the new version does an even better job at it than the previous one. > If anything, more frequent deprecations will mean more people staying > on older versions because they can't afford to rewrite their code. I think that's an oversimplification of what changes between versions, frankly. Best,Thread Previous | Thread Next