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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:38:45AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:33 AM, karl williamson > <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > > Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > >> Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since > >> version 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over > >> 3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers. > > > > In thinking about the announcement, 750K lines sounds impressive; on the > > other hand it also sounds like it could be a red flag about too many > > changes; some number of them have to have bugs. I'm wondering if it would > > be better to split out code changes into a separate number in the future. > > My guess is that the 750K number includes the many thousands that I > > submitted, which were just the published Unicode database, and nothing that > > we modified. These were all .txt files. > > IMO, more is better. Reports about 5.12.0 are already saying "this is > just a maintenance release". > The number of commits that make up the 750,000 lines of change may be another interesting piece of information. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next