From: Todd Gillespie <toddg@...128.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 2001-12-05T21:44:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27545] Re: Ruby 1.7 branch

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
:     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? ;-)}

Santa will never find those bodies, so I'll say yes.

: |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

Santa best watch out for the evil bunny, then. (http://sluggy.com/d/971224.html)

Seriously, where can I start on thread-safety?  I don't have the time to
comprehend the entirety of the interpreter, but this one issue is the
show-stopper for me right now.  Has anyone ginned up some docs on
thread-safety, and deferred the programming till later?

: 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.

The following date stamp list reaches almost eldritch-levels of
coincidence.  I'm becoming more convinced in a matz-kami [ruby-talk:17049]
who distributes Ruby on Christmas morning. :)

: -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