listen, I'm not saying you have done a bad job. I know you are doing something new which no one has done before. So its obvious there are a lot of unknown unknowns which create these rewrites and correction every now and then.

But you've got to understand realities of practical software development. When you say your next release is going to break simple programs of a user. That release doesn't qualify as a production release. Its a experimental release at the maximum. And most people when they learn about this will never bother to even adopt your release. This is precisely why Rakudo star releases aren't getting traction. Because you are saying the users, that the release contains some features, you don't quite really have documentation for it, CPAN isn't compatible, and there is no guarantee of the same features working fine in the next release.

This doesn't qualify to be a production release. Now lets look at the Perl 5 release. Once something is released, it goes out with a documentation. If something needs to be changed or removed or added there are deprecation cycles. And CPAN is always compatible.

Perl 6 production release need has to be feature complete. It will be impractical on our behalf to expect that. But it needs to adhere to most common definitions of production release. Its these experimental releases that are really messing up the perception.

In reply to Re^10: Waiting for a Product, not a Compiler by Anonymous Monk
in thread Moose - my new religion by jdrago999

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