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One wonders what it would take to re-invigorate interest? Will 5.10 have sufficient new features or improvements to rekindle the flame?

Im hoping it will raise the excitement level somewhat. Ive had a modest amount of feedback about the new regex features that would indicate that there is some enthusiasm for a new release.

Would an installable version of Perl 6 with sufficent performance to at least equal Perl 5 do the trick?

I'm sure it would. Although I'm sure the current perl6 folks would object to the implication that the current perl6 isn't installable. :-)

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Re^4: Are monks hibernating?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 14, 2007 at 12:49 UTC
    perl6 folks would object to the implication that the current perl6 isn't installable.

    I wasn't having a dig. I just mean that a 300+mb dependancy (ghc) is hardly conducive to mass distribution.

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Re^4: Are monks hibernating?
by blazar (Canon) on Feb 17, 2007 at 12:35 UTC
    Im hoping it will raise the excitement level somewhat. Ive had a modest amount of feedback about the new regex features that would indicate that there is some enthusiasm for a new release.

    I've seen an impressive example in a recent clpmisc Abigail's post, also available from Google Groups.

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      Although its amusing that none of the respondants to it actually mentioned the regex, they were all nattering away about Abigail's sig.

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        Oh, it happens quite so often with Abigail's sigs...

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