Sigh ... When navigating a mailinglist post by post I start to really appreciate PM's subthread view.
But thanks anyway! ++
It seems like the
use v7 yes or no?
issue is unresolved yet.
My gut feeling is that we will stick with this v7 mechanism and delay fancier approaches to Perl8.
PS: And for years now I was asking myself if there is any robust decision process in Perl's planning ... doesn't look like.
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PS: And for years now I was asking myself if there is any robust decision process in Perl's planning ... doesn't look like.
I feel sympathy for SawyerX who, I'm sure, is merely trying to do the best thing for perl.
And if you're the "leader" of the organization, then it should be ok for you to make an executive decision without going through the long and dreary process of first consulting with everyone.
But, as soon as he does that, people start disagreeing with him and questioning his lack of pre-consultation.
I guess that, from my POV, an astute "leader" would consult first ... and then make the executive decision.
I find myself also wondering whether Larry's decision to rename perl6 to raku was a case of "doing the right thing by the perl5 community" ... or was it a case of providing the perl5 community with enough rope ?
I'm not saying that Larry is evil ... but I wouldn't be surprised if he's very shrewd.
Anyway, the arguments about what should be done to advance from perl5 to perl7 and beyond are somewhat over my head.
My aim will be to just deal with whatever gets thrown at me in such a way that my modules on CPAN work with all perl versions from 5.8 onwards.
Cheers, Rob
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I feel sympathy with all of them.
It's the process which seems to be broken not the players.
I'm wondering how other open source languages are managing this.
Just having a benevolent dictator can't be the answer.
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Sigh ... When navigating a mailinglist post by post I start to really appreciate PM's subthread view.
For perl.org lists there is a NNTP gateway available (see https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html). I use Thunderbird to read it and find it far more friendly than the web interface, and it also allows me to participate in the conversations!
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