From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T22:29:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Absolute paths in $"

Hi,

In message "Re: Absolute paths in $""
    on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:52 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:

|> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
|> Any opinion?
|
|The change both simplifies code related to it and makes Ruby more
|robust for having it. While it is "big" in a sense, I'd be pretty
|surprised if any other projects besides mine and RubyGems would be
|"adversely" affected. That being the case, maybe it's worth moving up
|in the time-line. 2.0 still seems to be a ways off.

Compatibility goes beyond anyone's expectation.  I have just got
a report that this exact issue broke someone's code last week.

							matz.