From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-05-16T05:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 compatibility and performance

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Ruby 1.9 is a testbed of sorts for the eventual Ruby 2.0, and not
> considered production ready in any way.
Actually, not quite true.

It used to be the case that a x.y version number for Ruby where y was
odd was considered experimental, and an even minor version number
indicated a production version.

But late last year Matz announced that he was afraid of running out of
digits, and that 1.9 WOULD eventually be considered production ready,
and that a teeny version number >= 1 would indicate this.

The version released last Christmas was, I believe, initially intended
to be Ruby 1.9.1, but late in the game it was decided that it wasn't
quite ready, so it became 1.9.0.

As far as I know it's still the plan to come out with a stable 1.9.1
at some point, at which time the new 2.0 stream would start in
parallel.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/