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On Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:35:59 -0500 John Lightsey <john@nixnuts.net> wrote: > Why would a hard fork of Perl 5 be preferable to Perl 5 and Perl 7 being > maintained under the same umbrella by the same people? > > Sawyer's talk stated that Perl 5 will be maintained without any breaking > changes for users that don't want new features or don't feel ready to > upgrade. Perl 5 will be more stable than it currently is, not less. > > What would a fork of Perl 5 aim to accomplish that isn't already part of > the plan to maintain Perl 5 while Perl 7 moves forward? > > I'm not trying to be facetious... I see the Perl 5 long term support > aspect of the plan as a significant improvement to the status quo. It > should make changes to core Perl less of a risk for anyone tending > legacy codebases. It's a false dichotomy that all users want either legacy maintenance-mode Perl that never changes or total breakage without any warning. As I said in my previous post, there's an obvious third way.Thread Previous | Thread Next