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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.

From:
demerphq
Date:
June 22, 2006 08:16
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
9b18b3110606220816i478d91fcod873c44a484f846e@mail.gmail.com
On 6/22/06, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:48:41PM +0200, Mattia Barbon wrote:
>
> >   This is getting rather offtopic for p5p, but...
> > when people find that the wxPerl documentation is what it is, they
> > usually take the time to complain about it, but so far almost nobody
> > has taken the time to actually do anything about it.
>
> The cynic in me suggests that you're only offtopic because you used the
> words "wxPerl documentation" in that sentence.
>
> Otherwise is rather on-topic for p5p. :-(
>
> Specifically, there is *nothing* stopping *anyone* from bundling up more
> modules, testing that they all work, and shipping a bigger SDK tarball.  And
> then supporting it.
>
> Or a host of other ways people propose to improve the core. Working code
> talks loudest.
>
> Such as that timed exit code someone suggested two years ago. Which was a
> good idea, but could be done as a module. Last I remember was that he went
> off to implement it...
>
>
> Anyone who feels like writing some code -- there are perl-only tasks in
> http://mirrors.develooper.com/perl/APC/perl-current/pod/perltodo.pod
> looking for champions.


=head2 Merge the win32 and wince codebases

Can be removed from the TODO list.

Yves



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