From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T09:19:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to Ruby1.8-3?

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 02:12, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> In article <B241CBE9-586A-4FEE-B3D0-CCF6871EBCE2@grayproductions.net>,
>
> James Edward Gray II wrote:
> > Just my experience, but 1.8.3 cause me nothing but pain.  I had
> > trouble with Rake, Rails, RubyGems/RubyForge, YAML,
>
> I was bugged by YAML problems too so I upgraded to a recent stable
> snapshot and everything was fine.  I can't say whether Rake, Rails,
> RubyGems/RubyForge are OK since I don't use them, but YAML is already
> fixed AFAICT.

I use YAML pretty extensively in my app, and when I upgraded to 1.8.3 (using 
apt-get on a Kubuntu system) everything was fine, so it appears that at least 
the Ubuntu repositories have incorporated a fix.

> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy Henty