On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Moritz Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/07/2011 09:46 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote: >> I talked to moritz++ on IRC [0] and he commented that Parrot stable releases >> don't really feel like stable releases, because Rakudo has been bit by huge >> performance regressions in stable releases. > > That wasn't quite my reasoning. My argument was more that stable > releases don't feel better in any way, and that performance regression > was just an example. > >> Even though we are more careful about doing big merges before stable >> releases, >> they really aren't much more stable than dev releases. We are lying to our >> users. We should stop that. I propose that stable releases be put on hiatus, >> until there comes a time when we want to reinstate stable releases. > > They do serve a purpose though: most distributions don't want to track > monthly releases, so we need to present a recommendation which version > to ship. If we abolish "stable" releases, we should have at least > "recommended" releases, even if there's no real reason to recommend them > over other releases.
We have tried to emphasize "supported" rather than "stable", and I think the every 3 month schedule there works in light of distributions. Even duke called them stable in his email, though, so this distinction probably needs more marketing. >> That being said, the way we store structured deprecation data in >> api.yaml [4] will >> become even more vital. > > I'm curious, is there a plan how exactly a HLL dev could profit from > that data? (sorry for getting a bit off-topic here) > >> Parrot needs to assume that Rakudo will port themselves to another VM or >> write >> their own. > > Just for clarity, Rakudo doesn't want to move away from Parrot, but > cater to multiple backends, Parrot being one of them. (I think most > Parrot developers are well aware of that, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it.) > > Cheers, > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > -- Will "Coke" Coleda _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
