At 09:38 AM 8/7/00 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>On Sat, 05 Aug 2000 12:54:52 -0400, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 06:04 PM 8/5/00 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > >In the roadmap, there's lot of actions and shamelines as spoken of in the
> > >camel herders association meeting. What was also talked about there,
> was an
> > >early release of perl6 to the active CPAN authors, so they would be
> able to
> > >try and implement the new language for their modules.
> > >
> > >I cannot find this in the timeline's
> >
> > You'll get it at the same time as everyone else, since it'll be out as
> soon
> > as possible in general. (Assuming you don't mind working with alpha
> code...)
> >
> > The plan is for an alpha by next TPC. How alpha is, as always, an open
> > question, given that's almost a year off.
>
>I know, it's clearly in the timeline.
>
>I'm not worried about CPAN authors not getting to what they need, but as
>mentioned in Monterey, It's also a reassurance to the rest of the world that
>the CPAN modules are not forgotten.
>
>The second thing that should be considered is that a lot of important/heavily
>used modules depend on other modules (i.e. all DBD's depend on DBI).
>
>I just think this should be mentioned in the timeline.
Unfortunately that makes us presume on the efforts of folks not involved.
We can't, for example, promise that Tim'll have DBI and DBD::Oracle working
on Perl 6, or that Nick'll have Tk working, at day 300 or whatever. Those
promises need to come from the folks that'll do the actual work.
We can make promises on what'll be in the standard library and I'm sure we
will, we just don't know what they all are yet.
Dan
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