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From:
Rocco Caputo
Date:
March 3, 2014 14:43
Subject:
Re: RFC: add discouragement warning to perl threads documentation
Message ID:
71700920-E8E2-466B-9BD2-BA78EA165A10@pobox.com
On Mar 3, 2014, at 08:45, Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> wrote:

> On 03/03/2014 12:35 AM, Christian Walde wrote:
>> So now i don't know if you're thinking in a timeframe that removes the
>> necessity for my patch or not.
> 
> For what it's worth, I don't think your patch is a necessity to begin with.

The patch came about because unmanaged expectations of support are causing social problems.

Perl's threads are deprecated outside perl5-porters.  When asked for help, Perl's users, Porters, and activists will usually harangue people to stop using them.

-- 
Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com>


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