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in thread Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

Chromatic's whole point is there wont be a 6.0.0 ever. As a matter of fact he is telling the version number is just a farce. Rather there will monthly releases and star releases. Now we have to decide for ourselves what is stable and ready for us to use in our environments.

Meanwhile with every monthly release bugs, get fixed, things get stable, new things get added.

Although he is completely correct in concept, I don't it will help the Perl PR. Rather it will be a disaster

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Re^5: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 21, 2010 at 15:57 UTC
    Chromatic's whole point is there wont be a 6.0.0 ever.

    That's not my point at all.

    As a matter of fact he is telling the version number is just a farce.

    They often are. Should you not use Test::More because it's almost a decade old and hasn't reached that mythical, magical, flying candy-flavored unicorn version number of 1.0?

    Now we have to decide for ourselves what is stable and ready for us to use in our environments.

    You've always had to decide that. Again, see Test::More.

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Re^5: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?
by phaylon (Curate) on Sep 22, 2010 at 18:18 UTC

    I used 6.0.0 as an example. Nobody cares about the actual numbers, but about the intentions of the developers behind them. If version numbers were unimportant, we wouldn't need major and minor version releases, or mark RC's as such.

    Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
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      If version numbers were unimportant....

      If version numbers were sufficient, we wouldn't label releases with "No upgrade concerns", "Source but not binary compatible", "Security fixes only", or "Don't use; only test and report any upgrade concerns, incompatibilities, build problems, or packaging woes. We also wouldn't have to explain what version numbers mean.

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        That's the part of the message you picked out?

        Don't you feel concentrating on the floating point value part of people's question is a good explanation why some are frustrated?

        Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
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