From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T12:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Next 1.8.6 on Sept. 22

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Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> 
> Isn't 1.9 still officially a development branch? I wouldn't expect
> anyone to migrate apps to 1.9.1 given that there are features that may
> go away in an eventual 2.0 release, and also that there's a lot of
> really, really new stuff in 1.9 that hasn't had a lot of bake time. It
> seems like 1.8.x is going to remain by far the most used, most standard
> Ruby for a long time.
> 
> Abandoning 1.8 would be akin to stopping development on Linux 2.6
> because a major 2.7 release is coming out soon.

Well ... I wasn't proposing abandoning 1.8, just stopping at 1.8.6, with
continuous bug fixes, rather than putting features into a 1.8.7 or
1.8.8, etc. But I personally intend to move as quickly as possible to
1.9, given

a. I don't take a lot of risks in my coding style. If you look at my
Perl code you'll see that most of it will run with a Perl 4 interpreter. :)

b. 1.9 is way faster!
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