From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-01-08T17:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 eta? continuations in std lib?

On Jan 7, 2008, at 20:25 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> (Q1) timeframe for 1.9 to be production ready
>>
>> We don't know.  We REALLY hope it comes soon.  But there are so many
>> variables involved.  Only good news is 1.9 spec is almost fixed at
>> the last Christmas.
>
> And, from my own experience testing stuff for PickAxe3, work now  
> with the maintainers of the Gems you use to make sure they will be  
> compatible. As it stands now, about 30-50% of the Gems I've been  
> using are not. The changes are mostly trivial, but they'll need to  
> get made.

Hopefully I can give an updated number in about 4 weeks.