Re: Re^3: Question Node (yeah)

on the several occasions when "separate Perl 5 SoPW from Perl 6 SoPW" has come up in the past, my read was that the consensus was "we don't need a new section". I certainly don't think we need new sections.

Now hold on a sec, I didn't say anything about new sections -- I agree we have enough -- I'm talking about an interface issue. My preference would be to build further metadata into nodes so that a Perl 6 question would be flagged in the header as such, and this info could easily come from a generalized submission form like we're talking about.

"The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx

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Re^5: Question Node (nah) by tye (Sage) on May 20, 2003 at 15:31 UTC
Why is Perl 5 / Perl 6 such a big deal? Shouldn't we have meta data on exactly which Perl version, operating system (Win32/Unix/Mac/Other/Any), database, templating system, question category (Web/Network/Admin/Algo/Regex/...), etc. ? I don't see a "Perl5 \| Perl6 \| Other \| Both" field on questions being particularly useful. At least not enough to make site changes to support such. - tye	[reply]
Re: Re^5: Question Node (nah) by djantzen (Priest) on May 20, 2003 at 19:51 UTC
Sure! I think it would be great to have information about Perl version, OS, and a general category for the post built right into the node header. As far as Perl 5 => 6, obviously we won't know for sure until we actually start seeing this stuff in practice, but I know there's been concern in the past that it will become more difficult to provide support if we're trying to figure out which version an ambiguous question pertains to. "The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx	[reply]