Slackware skipped the 6.0 version entirely, they went straight from 4.0 to 7.0. Took them less than a year too, I guess they were on to something. -----Original Message----- From: boston-pm-bounces+jmcguire=liaison-intl....@mail.pm.org [mailto:boston-pm-bounces+jmcguire=liaison-intl....@mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 4:16 PM To: Jason McIntosh Cc: L-boston-pm Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 5 to Perl 6 evolution
Jason McIntosh wrote: > What I've lately been fond of explaining to friends is that "Perl6" is > the somewhat misleading name attached to Perl's skunkworks lab. It > develops, implements and tests various crazy ideas for new language > features, the best of which Perl adopts... Yes, exactly. > The name could be better... http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34307 The trouble with 6.0 6.0 seems to be a difficult number to reach. Last year, MySQL 6.0 was canceled when the community decided everything scheduled for that version should just be added in the 5.x branches. The same fate has just befallen the PHP community... This is mirrored in Perl's 5.12 release, the first for that language in a number of years. Most of the big minds in Perl have been thinking very hard about how to make 6.0 awesome. Unfortunately, they've been thinking and coding for almost 10 years now, and the remaining issues in Perl's 5.x branch were increasingly ignored. Updates were slow and infrequent, though new project management has pledged to make them more common. And in 5.12, the big fixes are almost all related to Unicode. One more 6.0 release was Windows Vista, right? Maybe there's some sort of 6.0 curse. -- Alex Handy > ...but getting a 10-year-old open-source project to change its > name seems unlikely; it seems easier to spread the meme that it's > Perl's R&D lab. True. James Eshelman wrote: > I think the developers of Perl 6 would do everybody a big favor by > renaming it. Calling it Perl 6 implies something that increasingly > doesn't seem to be true, and inhibits interest in and active development > of Perl 5. Agreed, but how do we make it happen. The people working on it seem to be happy with the name, and they ultimately have the say. We could all vote on it (post to whatever list covers perl 6 dev), but are they likely to listen? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
