'Useful' releases are a good metric

Posted Aug 16, 2009 14:13 UTC (Sun) by efexis (guest, #26355)
In reply to: 'Useful' releases are a good metric by epa
Parent article: "Useful and usable" Perl 6 release coming in April

" in some people's minds it implies 'the API is complete', or 'guaranteed backward and forward compatibility', neither of which apply to Rakudo"

And neither can you keep horses in it, which threw me at first... I think most people share neither interpretation though, with "stable release" and "stable across releases" meaning different things (such as API is stable across releases, so changing which release you use won't break things, as opposed to a stable release, meaning it itself won't break things, doesn't have memory leaks or hay in the corner... oops back to horses again).