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Postings from April 2000
If this hadn't gotten out NOW, it might well NEVER would have gotten out? Why? Because Sarathy would have quit in frustration over the demands put upon him, the expectation that he and he alone would rewrite and redesign all the major subsystems for everybody's pet little feeps, from threads to unicode to the codegenerators. That's asking a hell of a lot of one *volunteer*. We don't *need* those features for there to be a new release. Plenty got done. I challenge you to do back and look at what really happened for 5.N for other values of N in the (1,2,3,4,5) range. 5.002 says "prototypes". 5.003 is marked as a "security release". 5.004 is marked as a "maintenance release". You don't want perl5.6 -- you want perl6. That's a fine thing to want. But by any historical metric, this release had plenty in it to count as a dot-N release, and two years is too long to wait for this. Release early, release often. I see you're all lining up to take the switch to Larry's backside. How thoughtful. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next