From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-04T14:27:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27412] Re: Ruby 1.7 branch

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:27375] Re: Ruby 1.7 branch"
    on 01/12/04, Todd Gillespie <toddg@linux128.ma.utexas.edu> writes:

|All I want for Christmas is Ruby 1.8...

Have you been a good boy this year? ;-)}

|There's not much of 'this year' left to release in -- from reading the
|slides from RubyConf, I thought 1.8 would be out by now.

I didn't think so.  It's still beginning of December.

|Multiple, thread-safe interpreters are still part of the 1.8 plan,
|or am I foolishly optimistic?

I'm afraid Santa would not include it in the 1.8

							matz.
p.s.

Back in history, Many important versions of Ruby were released in
Christmas time.  1.0-971225, 1.1b3, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.6.2 were relased
in the very Christmas.

-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       431643 Dec  4  1997 ruby-1.0-971204.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       432426 Dec  9  1997 ruby-1.0-971209.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       432518 Dec 25  1997 ruby-1.0-971225.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       480153 Dec  5  1997 ruby-1.1b0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       483501 Dec  9  1997 ruby-1.1b1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       449282 Dec 19  1997 ruby-1.1b2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       452444 Dec 25  1997 ruby-1.1b3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       663577 Dec 16  1998 ruby-1.1d0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       670014 Dec 22  1998 ruby-1.1d1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       618065 Dec 25  1998 ruby-1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       634336 Dec 24  1998 ruby-1.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       745546 Dec  8  1999 ruby-1.4.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 matz     matz       850897 Dec 25  2000 ruby-1.6.2.tar.gz