Hi Jan,
On 10/05/2007, at 10:24 AM, Jan Dubois wrote:
ActiveState can help with packaging of pre-built binaries,
providing installers and additional tools. But I feel that it is
still too early to do this for Perl 6. I think we should spend any
additional time we find on improving our Perl 5 support instead.
But I’m also interested in hearing what other people out there
thing that ActiveState should be doing.
While there's a lot of talk about Perl 6, I think it can be argued
that Perl5 is not going to go away any time soon, or even "quickly"
after the release of Perl 6. It took a *long* time, even with all the
huge functionality improvements offered, to encourage people and
companies to migrate away from Perl 4 code after Perl 5 was released.
Since specifications have been/were in flux for so long, there are
lot of people, and yes, I'm one of them, who have not really bothered
to look all that much at Perl 6.
I have no doubt there'll be a point where ActiveState needs to build
and maintain both Perl5 and Perl6 environments, but as a commercial
entity, there needs to be (a) a profitable motive and (b) a stable
product to enhance. In the meantime, I certainly look forward to
continuing to work using ActiveState Perl 5.x and the PDK.
(Oh, and my request for what ActiveState should be working on? While
slightly off-topic, I'd love an option in PDK on Mac OS X to _not_
produce Universal binaries, and allow the person running perlapp to
nominate universal/ppc/intel. I know UB's are cool, and would like to
offer both PPC and Intel versions separately. Compiling on a Linux vs
a Mac OS X host, my distributions go from 45MB (Linux) to ~90MB ...)
Cheers,
Preston.
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