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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:06:32 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: whole Cygwin release/ distribution issues
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Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> Hallo Reini,
> Am Montag, 4. Oktober 2004 um 21:06 schriebst du:
>>>>* perl layout (better upgrade convenience)
>>>
>>>will be changed in the next update, I promise;)
> 
>>So we'll need another full recompile of all our extensions? :)
>>No problem, if it stays then until perl6 or another xs API change,
>>which will require rebuilds.
> 
> Perl6?  What is this?  There will be perl 5.10, 5.12, 5.14, 5.16, ...

Really? perl6 looks quite good actually. I never thought of a 5.10.
But maybe they'll decide to dump XS in favor of Inline, so this might be 
5.10 then. But the whole 5.x architecture (refcounts, types) is a mess.

Of course there will arrive 20 new scheme/lisp's with all the features 
perl6 wants to have in the meantime, but perl is perl. :)
   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
-- 
Reini

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