From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T23:28:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22082] Re: 1.8.7 Specifics

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:49 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<zznmeb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Aaron Patterson
>
>> In all honesty, I'd be fine with the core team announcing an end of
>> life of Ruby 1.8 as a whole.  That'd free up resources and end
>> confusion.   Has this possibility been considered?
>
> That's an interesting option, given that Engine Yard has volunteered to
> take over the "stock" Ruby 1.8.6, the One-Click installer is "stuck at
> 1.8.6" for some compatibility reasons, jRuby is tuned to 1.8.6, and Ruby
> Enterprise Edition is a fork of 1.8.6. From the point of view of your
> two big projects, Ruport and Prawn, could you just say "bug fixes only
> for 1.8, and only 1.8.6 is supported, all new functionality requires
> 1.9.1 or later?" Then it would "just" be a matter of getting Rails,
> RSpec and all the Linux distros functioning on 1.9.1 :)

I have considered this option but didn't want to stand in front of an
angry mob.  Please suggest this idea on the Prawn or Ruport list.   I
would do it if the community would allow for it...

-greg