Tim Peters writes:
About people not moving to 2.0, the single specific reason I hear most often hinges on presumed lack of GPL compatibility. But then people worried about that *have* a specific reason stopping them. For everyone else, I know sysadmins who still refuse to move up from Perl 4.
BTW, we recorded thousands of downloads of 2.0 betas at BeOpen.com, and indeed more than 10,000 of the Windows installer alone. Then their download stats broke. SF's have been broken for a long time. So while we have no idea how many people are downloading now, the idea that people stayed away from 2.0 in droves is wrong. And 2.0-specific examples are common on c.l.py now from lots of people too.
I agree. I think people are moving to 2.0, but not at the rate of keeping-up with the current release cycle. By the time 2/3 of them have installed 2.0, 2.1 will be released. So what's the point of installing 2.0, when a few weeks later, you have to install 2.1? The situation at our institution is a good indicator of this: 2.0 becomes the default this week. -- Dr. Paul Barrett Space Telescope Science Institute Phone: 410-338-4475 ESS/Science Software Group FAX: 410-338-4767 Baltimore, MD 21218