On Wed, 2011-23-11 at 17:58 +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > In addition, let me say this. It has been over five years since perl6 > was first mooted and progress has been slow. But slow progress and > justifications for the slow progress are not excuses. Some things do > take a long time. > > Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the > like. But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity. > > Wanting perl6 to be finished will not help it happen. Nor will acidic > comments.
I appreciate this. To me it seems more like 10 years. > > I am responding to these questions because I think it will help rakudo > to evolve faster if the work of the developers is placed in context and > their achievements are praised. > > I truly love perl6! I really would like for it to be blisteringly fast. > I worry it will never be truly fast because it is so complex, but only > the future will tell. > > So how to get things moving faster? I think a reasonable answer to "production ready" is when there is a working rakudo package in Debian stable. I see that parrot made it into squeeze (i'm still using etch ... don't ask) and I see rakudo is now in wheezy: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=rakudo&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all Looks like it's time for me to setup a wheezy box. It appears that the best guess for a wheezy release is August 2013: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00430.html Perhaps this would be a better answer for the skeptical. -- --gh
