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Re: Perl version of Python Enhancement Proposals [PEP]

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From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
July 24, 2000 13:29
Subject:
Re: Perl version of Python Enhancement Proposals [PEP]
Message ID:
yl4s5f5l1c.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> writes:

> Iam somewhat frustrated by the way this went.  There was a problem with
> p5p, and Sarathy set up a referee system to deal with it.  That was less
> than three months ago.  To all appearances, the referee system has been
> working fine.  There haven't been any flame wars since it was set up,
> although it still hasn't had a big test because nobody has brought up
> the ||| operator.

> But a lot of people seem to be saynig that p5p "doesn't work",
> apparently forgetting that we're still in the middle of an experiment to
> try to fix it, and that to all appearances the experiment is working out
> all right so far.

What he said.

I was trying to take people at their word that p5p was somehow broken for
them (I can't see it the way that they do, so I can't really disagree with
the impact on them personally), but I'm puzzled about this same thing.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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