From: Charles Nutter Date: 2011-01-10T11:47:14+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:34286] [Ruby 1.8-Feature#4239] Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8? Issue #4239 has been updated by Charles Nutter. 1.8.7 is a good release. It should be the last 1.8.x release. There's no need to make a "better" 1.8.7 in 1.8.8, because 1.8.7 is just fine. 1.9.2 is a good release. Anyone who wants something better than 1.8.7 should just move to 1.9.2. There's no reason to make a transitional 1.8.8 because 1.9.2 is just fine. JRuby 1.6 will support both 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 modes, meaning that the second most-commonly used Ruby implementation will support 1.9.2. Therefore, there's no reason to make a 1.8.8 since the above two statements apply to JRuby as well as C Ruby. It would also require us to maintain a third mode, since so many users will depend on 1.8.7 logic of today. 1.8.8 is not needed, and I don't see JRuby ever supporting it. I vote to eliminate ruby_1_8 branch, make 1.8.7 and ruby_1_8_7 the last 1.8.x version, and continue to maintain it as a maintenance branch only. 1.9.2 and successors are the future. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4239 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org