Re: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote: [..] > titled - RFC ## (v#): Add XYZ into Perl. That traffic is also easy > to find in the archives. > > That will probably be less of an issue with a strong lack of RFC > activity during the implementation phase. It very well could be > that anyone doin

Re: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Then again, remember the hassles we had with the perl6-* lists? > Nobody knew how to deal with topics that overlapped lists. You had > to know all the groups to decide which it was appropriate for. Are > these big enough hassles to suggest that per

RE: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread David Grove
On Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:02 AM, Nathan Torkington [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > David Grove writes: > > I'm wondering how different this is from the current setup. > > Currently there's the pumpking and the pumpking decides when to > release a new version of Perl. This exposes the p

Re: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread Nathan Wiger
Nathan Torkington wrote: > The immediate question facing us is how to structure software design. > This is different from the ongoing maintenance of Perl. > The architecture will be partially decided by Larry, and seems best > done by a few experienced with such things. Detailed design seems >

Re: Now and then

2000-10-10 Thread Uri Guttman
> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NT> Implementation is different from design, and different again from NT> maintenance. If we do the design, test cases, and stubbing well NT> enough, we could have a cast of thousands doing the implementation. cecil b. demillions

RE: Now and then

2000-10-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:50 PM 10/10/00 -0500, David Grove wrote: >Group: I have now had seventeen requests to fork perl from people other than >"elitists" apparently joking (?) about it. I haven't been. I don't think anyone else has either. It's not a joke, and it is a valid thing to do. >The answer is ABSOLUTEL

RE: Now and then

2000-10-10 Thread David Grove
On Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:03 PM, Nathan Torkington [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I think we're talking about two different periods of development here. > > The immediate question facing us is how to structure software design. > This is different from the ongoing maintenance of Perl. > >