From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T01:47:19+09:00
Subject: Re: State of Ruby 1.8.6?

David A. Black wrote:

> My understanding of 1.8.7 is that it mainly exists to facilitate 
> transition to 1.9. The problem, for me, is that it's an extra step: when 
> I move to 1.9, I will just move in one step. 1.8.7 is too big a
> change from 1.8.6, and not enough of a change to really be 1.9. It's
> definitely much bigger than any other third-digit change I've seen in
> Ruby, and is causing more confusion and ambivalent feeling than any
> other.
> 
> One problem is that the default API docs are now 1.8.7, which means
> they're really almost 1.9-compliant, and that means that people are
> getting confused when their installed Ruby is so different from the
> docs.

Would it be better if ruby-doc.org defaulted to showing the 1.8.6 docs, 
with a distinct link to the 1.8.7 docs for those who want to see them?

I updated the site shortly after 1.8.7 was released, but I'm sensing 
that for most people 1.8.6 is really the de facto current version.  (I, 
too, am using 1.8.6.)

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