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From:
Rocco Caputo
Date:
June 30, 2020 14:33
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
30373b9a-6603-d8c8-eb65-aeca7cf0585b@pobox.com
On 06/30/2020 02:00, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2020-06-29 10:40 p.m., Tom Molesworth wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 13:33, Darren Duncan wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-06-29 10:22 p.m., Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters wrote:
>> > So one concern that does not seem to have been addressed by
>> the "enable by
>> > default" proposal is "what about CPAN". It used to be a
>> selling point for
>> Perl,
>> > would be a shame to lose that.
>>
>> Well I DID say that CPAN is one of those places where explicit
>> versions SHOULD
>> be used. And if any don't, well CPAN is public, and as you
>> demonstrated we can
>> see what would break. And so we now are in the position to fix
>> those modules.
>>
>> Fix... how?
> Fix means make compatible. And the argument is for the community at
> large to do it, not just those who maintain the Perl interpreter.
Not quite. "Fix" means "make compatible with perl7". As has been
discussed and quantified earlier, a significant subset of CPAN can't be
compatible with both languages simultaneously. In that context, "fix"
is in effect a top-down mandate for users to abandon perl5.
"Fix" also deprecates 5PAN as broken, the belief of which makes the
mandate more palatable.
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