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Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes: > My comments here are really about who is paying. > > I'd argue that the external projects are expecting a lot for free. > Sure, it lowers *their* total cost if the volunteers maintaining the > core language never deprecate *anything*, but they are externalising > costs, because they don't contribute to helping bare the cost of > this. > > (There is next to zero flow of volunteers from CPAN projects into > perl core maintenance. Because Perl 5 basically "just works") CPAN maintainers _are_ investing effort in keeping their libs along Perl's development, else the cpantesters matrixes would always get continuously more red. For participating in perl, the compiler, the barrier is huge(*). And nobody in p5p in turn does want to physically get paid, how the “Gabor Thread” showed. I feel the weariness coming out of this statement for p5p's effort, but the people on the software stack on top of the compiler are also hard-working and on their limits. Both are part of the same ecosystem which only as a whole makes Perl. Kind regards, Steffen (*) and participation wouldn't yet help avoiding deprecations -- Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next