From: Zeno Davatz Date: 2011-01-21T22:24:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:34737] [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 Zeno Davatz. Dear Luis Long-time no see! Thank you for your Feedback. Please bring some practical examples to the table. Do you even use the dbi-gem? Linux is consistent and compatible in many ways. I express my opinion about that. You are a windows user as I understand. You are used to consistency by birth ;) - I think Ruby can learn from Linux. Yes I do. Linux has a very transparent update-process, a very practical one. Booting into new RC-Releases just works. So please teach me one thing: Ruby-1.8.6 is stable. Ruby 1.9 is a huge break with Ruby 1.9. Ruby 2.0 should be a better Ruby 1.9. What will Ruby 2.1 be? I can not detect a practical release cycle logic I can not detect any bridges between the versions. All I can see are a lot of new, "cool" features. But I am willing to learn. So how is it? How does it work? With Linux I can clearly detect the release cycles. It is a RC-Release every other week counting from rc1 (ambitious and crazy new stuff) to rc8 (smoothening out everything for the next stable release). Linus will never accept crazy stuff in RC8, he will in RC1. But still the PC will boot up again in the new stable release. Simple, effective, consistent practical. I guess that is the reason why you work on Windows in the first place. Best Zeno ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4239 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org