From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-12-29T02:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Lothar Scholz ha scritto:

> gr> just my 2cents on this:
> gr> I think this is really a worthwhile goal.
> gr> I'd like to have a slightly more formal process like
> gr> - set a not huge timing for the each .point release (i.e. 4 months). I'd
> gr> like this to be short, pointing people to 'stable snapshot' does not
> gr> give the same feeling that "use 1.8.3".
> 
> I hope we do not - at least with the current ruby development process.
> 
> You can't use binary extensions that are compiled against 1.8.1 with
> 1.8.2 even when the version number suggests this. So as long as the
> core team is not willing/able to garantee API stability between patch
> releases the situation gets worse.
> 
> There are already to much projects out there that are simply out of
> date and do not work very well because of the backward compatibility
> problem.

good point, thank, I thought it *was* stable.
Should'nt this be true within point release?