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In article <20071212231027.GN28348@pjcj.net>, Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net> wrote: > Questions: > > - Do we want to try to predict when Perl 6 will (or will not) be > released? Am I accurate, or at least not inaccurate? > > - How are (were) production releases measured? I count 28 production > releases over the last 14 years, ten of which were (or will be) major > (aka minor) version increments. You're asking this because a part of the FAQ talks about how many production releases there are per year. You'll notice in the perlhist list that a lot of those releases are days apart (and in one case, not even that). The real point is the past couple of years, not the average over 14 years. People care about how it's going now, not the average and that someone didn't turn off the Chipinator during the winter of 96-97, or that 5.8 had six releases one year. Those outlier periods skew the data. The last release, 5.8.8, was 22 months ago. > -There is no Perl 6 for the next couple of years. Stay tuned, but don't > +There will be no Perl 6 for at least a year. Stay tuned, but don't > worry that you'll have to change major versions of Perl soon (i.e. before > -2008). > +2009). I'm juat going to remove all the dates and say it will be ready when it's ready.Thread Previous | Thread Next