Re: Schedule for the 1.8.7 release

I'm a little confused with what you are asking, so let me try to summarize.

I have two requests for the release so far. The first change request is a
patch by Mauricio Fernandez. It has been applied to Ruby 1.9 although
Mauricio also gave a patch for 1.8 and it is just as valid there.

The second change request stems from an observation that in conditionals
like "if", "while", or "until", a trace hook gets called twice for no good
reason that I can tell. Originally I had thought there was a stop before the
expression was evaluated and another after the expression was evaluated, but
that is not the case.

Here is an example:

x=1
x=2 if x=3

If you debug this you will see that the values of x are 1 and 2 even though
there is a stage in theory where x=3.

I'm not sure what the intended behavior is supposed to be, but if it is to
run the trace hook once, I think I could provide a patch for that.

On Ruby 1.9 if you run the above program, I do not believe you do not get
the duplicate call to the trace hook. Since Ruby 1.9 changes constantly, I
could be wrong; so folks please double check. I have been using a patched
debug.rb on 1.9 since the one I have installed on Ubuntu ruby
1.9.0(2007-08-30 patchlevel 0) [i486-linux] doesn't work. (No doubt
this been
subsequently fixed.)

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Akinori MUSHA <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Still packing..
>
> At Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:41:23 -0500,
> Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> > comments in line.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Akinori MUSHA <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, developers,
> > >
> > > After seeing Ruby 1.9.0-1 released earlier today, I, as the release
> > > manager of the 1.8 series, would like to announce here that it is time
> > > to start working on the next release, 1.8.7.
> > >
> > > Below is the timeline I made up.  The reason for the slow start (long
> > > period for discussion) is because I'm going on a week's trip next week
> > > to Portland and Seattle.
> > >
> > > Schedule for 1.8.7: (subject to change as it proceeds)
> > >
> > >    Now - 2008-03-22
> > >      Discuss what features should and/or can be backported, and get
> > >      the release manager to make decisions as to which features are
> > >      going to be worked on for 1.8.7.
> > >
> >
> > In what forum are changes and features going to be discussed? ruby-core?
> As
>
> Yes, ruby-core would be the best place to discuss in.
>
> > for issues,
> > see  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/15231
> >
> > Alas no comments/discussion. If you want me to work up a patch, let me
> know.
> >
> > As for back-ports, I have the honor of submitting the first tracker
> request
> > :-)
> >
> >
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18517&group_id=426&atid=22040
>
> OK, I've read the thread and the patch looks fair.  But, is what you
> mean by "a patch" different than is attached to the request?
>
> --
> Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/
>