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>
