> From: Ovid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 5:53 PM [...] > Since it looks like we're really going to have Perl6 within a year > or so, what are the "must have" modules folks will want before they > can consider using Perl6 in production?
Interesting that there was no mention of using Perl 5 modules in this thread (unless I missed it). Will that be a feasible and practical approach to getting off the ground? Or will it take too much added interfacing effort? Or is this sort of feature going to follow some time after the initial release? As far as distributions, I'd like to see (1) a maximally portable and minimalist "Swiss Army knife" version to get Perl 6 in as many doors as possible, and (2) a "Wizard's workshop" version that was something of a (P5ish+ scale) "best practices" + "cookbook" + "power tools" version. Specialist distributions could then use either of these as their point of departure to build on. (2) would be typically be more oriented to the "big 3" platforms. While I suppose it could be treated as a super-bundle, it would be probably be generally advantageous if it were a standard distribution of the sort that (for example) ActiveState would provide. Best regards, Conrad Schneiker http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Users_FAQ (Moved from AthenaLab to Perl 6 Wiki.) www.AthenaLab.com (Nano-electron-beam and micro-neutron-beam technology.)