Pre-3.6 code freeze

NotFound julian.notfound at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 14:12:23 UTC 2011


Hello

> Things like making hardlinks, or filenames with strange encoding
> shouldn't be in Parrot core if they aren't available on all our target
> platforms. It's trivial for us to move that kind of functionality out
> into extension libraries or other places so people who want it can

What kind of functionality? Opening a file? What strange encoding?

Dropping an important functionality just because we don't have a
robust test strategy for all platforms will create more problems than
it solve.

-- 
Salu2


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