From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T18:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: State of Ruby 1.8.6?

Hi,

At Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:08:31 +0900,
Alex Fenton wrote in [ruby-talk:310305]:
> Ruby 1.8.7 is a dead-end experimental release and I wouldn't waste your 
> time with it. For some reason the core ruby development team see the 
> "stable" 1.8 branch as the perfect place to tinker around with cute new 
> features and needless changes to the underlying extension API. As a 
> result 1.8.7 (and possibly later versions of 1.8.6?) don't only break 
> certain Rails versions but also any library that uses certain SWIG 
> features to generate extension code.

What is "the underlying extension API"?  Has it been reported,
or I'm missing it?

-- 
Nobu Nakada