From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T10:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Real world viability of 1.9?

Hi,

In message "Re: Real world viability of 1.9?"
    on Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:41:33 +0900, "John Wells" <lists@sourceillustrated.com> writes:

|I realize that 1.9 will be a "dev" release, similar to the Linux
|kernel. I'm curious, though, given the speed improvements, do folks
|intend to use this for production use? Is it likely that many
|applications will be switched to run on 1.9, or is this completely
|unwise?

It's pretty difficult to predict, since it's not really a technical
question.  At lease, some of us already use 1.9 for their daily
scripting.

|And, given that, is there any timeline for 2.0? A year? Two?

There's no timeline for 2.0.  We haven't even started working on it.

							matz.