From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T01:56:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21995] Re: New hash : syntax for the 1.8 series?

2009/2/11 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>:
> On Feb 11, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Rados�aw Bu�at wrote:
>
>> If I must be honest I'm very worried and confused with Ruby versioning
>> policy.
>
> I agree.
>
> I'm also pretty sure we have a lot more voices in this thread saying "this
> is scary" than we do "this is smart."  I've seen multiple recommendations in
> the wild to avoid 1.8.7 altogether.

I'll be blunt.  I think it is extremely irresponsible of ruby-core to
stick by what has been such a wildly unpopular decision.
I am all for Ruby 1.9.1 adoption (my book "Ruby Best Practices" is 1.9
only), but Ruby 1.8.7+ creates such a problem for me as a package
maintainer, author, and community member that I am really starting to
get frustrated with the way this is being handled.

Please, please consider moving this experiment to a branch and making
1.8.6 the new 1.8 head.  I've seen countless prominent voices in the
community ask for this, and it remains unanswered.

-greg