Plugins, API wars, parallelism, progress

[Andy Armstrong]

Schwern's right. The way we're getting bogged down is symptomatic of  
a need to release some code.

We don't have a finalized proposal for making our code pluggable but  
I think it's reasonable to assume that whatever we settle on won't  
require us to break or deprecate any/much of our current API. So  
let's keep moving.

As soon as we test cleanly on Windows and VMS I want to release 2.99_03.

Then lets focus on 3.00 remembering that after 3.00 it's easy to add  
features but hard to remove them.

Eric: I'm truly sorry if I've annoyed you. I can assure you it's not  
personal. We clearly have philosophical differences on all sorts of  
issues - the kind of stuff that I'm sure would make for a lively and  
informative debate in the right context. And I'm sure one day we'll  
meet and that debate will ensue - unless you punch me first :)

Just now though we need to get a release out. I believe the majority  
view is that we're close, right?

Schwern: sorry - the VMS thing. As I keep saying if you can point me  
at some instructions I don't mind firing up a testdrive account and  
running the tests.

Ovid: you mentioned testing against a big slice of CPAN...

I *really* want to release 2.99_03 in the next 24 hours and then push  
rapidly on to 3.00.

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten