On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud<pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:42PM -0600, David Green wrote: >> On 2009-Aug-9, at 3:57 pm, Tim Bunce wrote: >>> Perhaps it's worth asking what we might call the release after that >>> one. >>> "Rakudo not-quite-so-lite"? >> >> Rakudo ** (aka "Rakudo Exponentiation")? Though I think Patrick is >> optimistic that development will proceed exponentially enough that a >> single interim release will be enough to hold us over until Christmas. > > I'm not sure I'm quite THAT optimistic. :-) We may end up with > multiple interim releases in the Rakudo Star series before we reach > Christmas. (And yes, they may even be *+1, *+2, etc.) > > In some ways I'm starting to think of "Star" (or whatever designation > we end up using) as a label for a series of interim releases in the > same sense that NASA used "Gemini" as the label for the program > came between "Mercury" and "Apollo". > > In other words, "Star" may really end up being a designation for a > program of planned releases with certain major objectives that > cumulatively lead up to the ultimate goal of a "full Perl 6 release". > > The precise details are still a little ill-formed in my head at the > moment, but as they come together (and are expressed in planning > documents) I'll be blogging or writing about them appropriately. >
my bikeshed would go along the lines of @rakudo[*-100] @rakudo[*-99] ... Gabor
