From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-01-22T06:56:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34775] Re: [Ruby 1.8-Feature#4239] Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8?

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:34773] [Ruby 1.8-Feature#4239] Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8?"
    on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:19:36 +0900, Zeno Davatz <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|According to what Yui Naruse told me Oniguruma was decided to be merged into 1.9 in 2002, see http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4239#note-13. I do not understand why. In my opinion it should have been merged into 1.8.6 and then Ruby 1.9 should have been build on 1.8. So there your "should" would have worked out perfectly well. Because there would not have been such a strong modularization of Ruby. But again that is fundamental. Micro-Kernel vs Monolithic Kernel.
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|We do not use the oniguruma gem we use the Oniguruma 2.5.8 patch that only works upto Ruby 1.8.6. That is why I want it in Ruby 1.8.8. And there I feel with Michael Fellinger. Bridge the gap.

So do you really mean to suggest throwing away our work of 8 years,
just because a third party patch does not work on the latest stable
version?

							matz.