A Perl 6 status update [LWN.net]

A Perl 6 status update

Posted Jan 1, 2008 0:24 UTC (Tue) by chromatic (guest, #26207)
In reply to: A Perl 6 status update by dskoll
Parent article: A Perl 6 status update

I'm having trouble figuring out how you've never ever had dependency "trouble" with any other dependency. If you really need to control the entire stack your customers use, have you considered shipping the entire stack yourself?

(That presumes that Perl 5 code won't run on Parrot in process with Perl 6 code, and the plan is to make that possible. That's why we're writing Parrot.)

Are you going to remove tmp_recycling() again and rename MIME::Parser, by the way?

(Log in to post comments)

A Perl 6 status update

Posted Jan 1, 2008 11:29 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I'm having trouble figuring out how you've never ever had dependency "trouble" with any other dependency.

We depend only on core Perl modules. We ship a sizeable number of CPAN modules to make sure our dependencies are met, but it's by no means the entire Perl environment.

Are you going to remove tmp_recycling() again and rename MIME::Parser, by the way?

Well, since tmp_recycling has never actually done anything in the entire history of MIME::Tools as far as I can see, probably it will go away! (You can blame my co-maintainer for removing it originally...)

I'm not sure what you mean by renaming MIME::Parser.