From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-13T16:05:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34464] Re: [Ruby 1.8-Feature#4239] Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)
<jonas@pfenniger.name> wrote:
> Look. ruby-1.9.2 happens to have another regexp engine, but it's
> backward-compatible with 1.8.7, what do you want more ? The confusion
> came because the onuguruma GEM was declaring to be forward-compatible
> with 1.9.2, which is not.

FWIW, both JRuby and Rubinius are using "Oniguruma all the time", and
we have had no problem matching compatibility with 1.8. Any
differences in 1.9 are really designed differences in Ruby, not in
Oniguruma (with a few small exceptions, of course).

- Charlie