[VPM] P5P future plans

Jer A jeremygwa at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 8 17:18:21 PST 2006


Has there been any mention of hyper-ops being added to this future release 
of perl 5, or is there a XS coded module from cpan, that performs the same 
way?

-Jeremy A.


>From: Darren Duncan <darren at DarrenDuncan.net>
>To: victoria-pm at pm.org
>Subject: Re: [VPM] P5P future plans
>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:43:44 -0800
>
>At 6:06 PM -0800 12/7/06, Darren Duncan wrote:
> >At 8:59 AM -0800 12/7/06, Peter Scott wrote:
><snip>
> >On that note, I don't follow the P5P channels, but it looks like you do 
>...
> >
> >Can you tell me whether the P5P are still in feature-adding mode, or
> >are they now in the stabilize-and-bugfix-for-release mode?  Is there
> >a ballpark for when 5.10.0 might be released?  Also, is there likely
> >to be another 5.8.x release first (now 10+ months since the last)?
> >
> >More generally, can you tell me where I can look for a P5P TODO
> >document that shows things remaining in the 5.9.x branch, so I can
> >look back to it and see things being ticked off over time?
> >
> >Also, while it looks like version.pm and Module::Build are in 5.9.x,
> >which is nice, do you know if CPANPLUS (used by the CPAN Testers) is
> >going to get included with it too (as I heard some time back), or are
> >users still going to have to use CPAN.pm by default?
>
>After sending the above, I was able to find some answers online that
>I was unable to find before.
>
>This P5P thread from about 2 weeks ago seems to collect the main issues:
>
>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/210400
>
>So from that, I found what the main TODO items are, that CPANPLUS
>will indeed be added to the core soon, that a 5.9.5 release is
>imminent with a 5.9.6 (5.10.0-beta) to be released after 5.9.5 is
>tested with lots of CPAN.
>
>-- Darren Duncan
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