[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: Inclusion of bug #9376 in 1.8.6 branch

From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-06-16 22:20:29 UTC
List: ruby-core #11487
Hi.

Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> Would it be possible to include the fix for bug #9376 in 1.8.6 ? It is not 
> fixed in 
>
> [~]% ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i686-linux]
>   

Hmm.

This is obviously an API change so backporting to elder ruby should be
done carefully. Can you think of any side-effects with it?  In this case
there seems to be no roundabout way in current 1.8.6, so including the
fix is quite possible, as long as it is harmless.

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