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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:21:34PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:02 PM, jesse wrote: > > >I've actually been pressing various people to consider dropping the > >first . from the "marketing" name of Perl 5 versions. My main reason > >for > >wanting to do this has to do with helping to reinforce that Perl 5 and > >Perl 6 are separate languages. They share a common father and a common > >spirit, but Perl 6 does not "obsolete" Perl 5. > > +1 for "Perl 5 v12.0 Woo. > to be released this year. Just as a point of caution: We can't "promise" a release date for a stable version. The Pumpking can set a date for a feature freeze. We can reasonably promise a date for RC0. After that, it's a matter of how well we fix and find bugs. I expect to have something useful to say on this topic this weekend. -jThread Previous | Thread Next