From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T02:06:24+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby 1.0 Released

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Thiago Jackiw wrote:
>> Great work! Does this release only support ruby up to version 1.8.5?
> 
> Our understanding is that 1.8.6 was largely a bug-fix release, and since
>   at least half of JRuby is not implemented with the same code as C Ruby
> (our Java code versus C Ruby's C code) we opted not to update the
> remainder (stdlib) until after 1.0. I'd be surprised if the difference
> between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 was noticed by anyone using JRuby.
> 
> As far as 1.9 goes, we're planning to start implementing select 1.9
> features now that JRuby 1.0 is out, to allow early adopters to start
> using those features with JRuby.
> 
> - Charlie

Maybe that's the time it should be considered to use a separate 
versioning for the language. But I guess that has already been 
discussed.

Regards
Stefan

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