On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty > Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a "production release"): > > - What constitues a "production release"?
The developers judge that the software is reasonably feature complete, and more importantly, it is robust enough to use in a "production" environment such as a school or company website, where customers will experience it. It does not mean that it is perfect, or fast. But the programmer should have a reasonable expectation that it will work correctly (aka as documented). > - What was the first production release of Perl 4? I never saw Perl 4, but I suspect 4.0. > - What was the first production release of Perl 5? I suspect 5.0. > - What was the first production release of Linux? I suspect 1.0 > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production release"; > was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards? IMO, concurrent. Daniel. -- No trees were destroyed in the generation of this email. However, a large number of electrons were severely inconvenienced.
