The unstoppable Perl release train?

Posted Mar 1, 2012 22:24 UTC (Thu) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446)
In reply to: The unstoppable Perl release train? by autarch
Parent article: The unstoppable Perl release train?

Willy waving about relative guru powers is silly. Do you have any idea what the difference between 3^PI and 7^(3*PI) actually is? It makes you look daft.

Reporting on unspecified security problems in a core part of many systems seems to me a really good point to the article. I'll take an informed article with references from the grumpy ed over a comment from a participant any day. Especially an article that provides references to both sides of the argument and invites me to make my own mind up.

Cheers
Jon

The unstoppable Perl release train?

Posted Mar 2, 2012 1:04 UTC (Fri) by autarch (subscriber, #22025) [Link] (2 responses)

I was responding to someone who claimed I was unqualified to declare that the article wasn't very good.

The bit about guru levels is of course quite silly. I was joking!

The unstoppable Perl release train?

Posted Mar 2, 2012 1:33 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (1 responses)

My main point was no more about how qualified you are than your main point was about how qualified you are.

My main point was that you first admit you don't know how important the security issue is, then claim that the security issue is not important enough to delay the release.

You can't have it both ways.

The unstoppable Perl release train?

Posted Mar 2, 2012 15:04 UTC (Fri) by autarch (subscriber, #22025) [Link]

Delaying the release won't get this security issue fixed any faster.

Also, Tom Christiansen was not suggesting that the release be delayed to fix this particular issue. He wanted it to be delayed to fix the bugs he was reporting. He is not the person who reported the security issue.