Then you could be like TeX and have releases numbered with ever-increasing parts of an irrational number.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark J. Reed<markjr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wrong reply button... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjr...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:36:52 -0400 > Subject: Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite? > To: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> > > That has the same problem as lots of other themes - it puts a hard > limit on the number of releases before the One True Rakudo. > Maybe you could call it Zeno's Camel (project motto: "halfway done!") > and have releases numbered 0.5, 0.75, 0.875, 0.9375,... :) > > On 8/10/09, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud<pmich...@pobox.com> >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:42PM -0600, David Green wrote: >>>> On 2009-Aug-9, at 3:57 pm, Tim Bunce wrote: >>>>> Perhaps it's worth asking what we might call the release after that >>>>> one. >>>>> "Rakudo not-quite-so-lite"? >>>> >>>> Rakudo ** (aka "Rakudo Exponentiation")? Though I think Patrick is >>>> optimistic that development will proceed exponentially enough that a >>>> single interim release will be enough to hold us over until Christmas. >>> >>> I'm not sure I'm quite THAT optimistic. :-) We may end up with >>> multiple interim releases in the Rakudo Star series before we reach >>> Christmas. (And yes, they may even be *+1, *+2, etc.) >>> >>> In some ways I'm starting to think of "Star" (or whatever designation >>> we end up using) as a label for a series of interim releases in the >>> same sense that NASA used "Gemini" as the label for the program >>> came between "Mercury" and "Apollo". >>> >>> In other words, "Star" may really end up being a designation for a >>> program of planned releases with certain major objectives that >>> cumulatively lead up to the ultimate goal of a "full Perl 6 release". >>> >>> The precise details are still a little ill-formed in my head at the >>> moment, but as they come together (and are expressed in planning >>> documents) I'll be blogging or writing about them appropriately. >>> >> >> >> my bikeshed would go along the lines of >> >> @rakudo[*-100] >> @rakudo[*-99] >> ... >> >> Gabor >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> >
