On (02/07 15:22), Rocco Caputo wrote: > Signal reform is not quite done. We're still dispatching _signal, > albeit with great reluctance.
why? kill this beast already. > To me, a 1.0 release implies a certain measure of spit and polish that > the documentation (and perhaps the installer) lack. the installer has a massive weight of requirements on it that prevents it from being all that it can be. its greatest weight is the seeming inability of certain users to read what the installer is asking them. > Maybe the backward-looking version can be 1.00 and the forward-looking > release 2.00. Then we can chew up the 0 series with reasonable large > updates and still leave the pre-5.6.1 maintainer significant room to > maneuver. that pretty much leaves us with a perl-version-support split happening in >2038. i'm sensing that no one really wants to support <5.6.1 anymore but no one really wants to decide when where and how we make the split. -- Matt Cashner http://eekeek.org eek at eekeek dot org
