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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Kurt D. Starsinic writes: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0500, HappyFunBall wrote: > > > This isn't so much about news as getting vendors to understand the issues. > > > If OpenBSD thinks upgrading Perl breaks things before ever hearing about > > > Perl 6 ..well...we's gonna have some problems getting folks buying into > > > Perl 6. > > Don't forget that we are able to tell these people that Perl 6 can > mitigate these things as much as possible. s/can/will/; Good, hard backwards compatibility's one of my pet beefs with software. There are user-mode programs that were compiled against VMS 1.0 that still run on VMS 7.2. (This is the same, nearly 20 year old, binary, mind, no recompiles along the way) It's a target I like to shoot for. Granted, we're ripping up the world here for perl 6, but I'd really like extensions that are built against the first release of 6 to be able to run, with no recompilation, against the last gasp of 6, whenever that is. (Yeah, I know, the *BSD folks are talking language level breakage, but that's not my area) DanThread Previous | Thread Next