From: David Morton Date: 2006-09-18T12:16:12+09:00 Subject: Re: the future of Ruby -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 17, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Joan Iglesias wrote: > Could you give me an example (perl)? I didn't find it. I'm quite > new at Unfortunately I don't remember the exact program, I remember installing an open source program (something like a network monitor or something) and it wouldn't work on every version. I also remember hearing that perl 4 to perl 5 had a lot of incompatible changes, just look for a doc on migrating from perl 4 to perl 5. I've also run into quite a few pieces of software that needed specific versions of java. Oracle being the worst; I still haven't found the right version of java to get it to run. >> These same methods should have been employed by everyone who got >> burned by the 1.1 release of rails. It's not that the changes were >> all that big, but some simple testing would have eased the >> transition. >> > Can you give me a reference to the rails problem, please? Thank > you. My > projects, if I use Ruby, will work on Rails. You must be new here. :) The rails team didn't handle the 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade well, and worse, all the web host services upgraded without doing proper testing. Hopefully they have learned their lesson early.... :) The rails framework is still undergoing very rapid development, and so leaving your app in the hands of the system installed version is not a good idea. To help with this, you can either lock your rails app to a specific installed version, or you can install the whole rails tree within your own app, which will keep it from ever being broken by a rails upgrade. David Morton Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com mortonda@dgrmm.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFDg81Uy30ODPkzl0RAsuzAKCxBi/J9ejTfyhWSwwThXjRIv/KsACfYiQq CPik9hv9AruXstd6ebfbYyI= =EdkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----