From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-10-13T19:56:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.6-p287 in Debian 4

Ollivier Robert wrote:
> In article <40c7d0973ffa54eff620c0c70682d3c5@ruby-forum.com>,
> Brian Candler  <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>>Is there general consensus on the stability of 1.8.7pXXX with Rails? 
>>Anyone running it in large-scale production?
> 
> I think we should pretend this release never existed at all

I agree entirely.

The OP, who is a Rails user, wanted to upgrade to 1.8.6p287 (bad idea 
IMO). Some people were giving advice to upgrade to 1.8.7pXXX (which is 
an even worse idea IMO, but I wanted to check for other people's 
opinions)

I've been avoiding 1.8.7 entirely, since it seems to give the worst of 
all worlds: a bunch of features imported from 1.9, which I don't want, 
yet not sufficiently widely used and tested to have shaken out the bugs.

But even the 1.8.6 branch isn't a stable production branch any more; so 
we are left with running 1.8.6p114.xyz where .xyz is some distro's 
bundle of security patches :-(

> and concentrate in
> getting 1.9 out...

That I can wait for too. Last I heard the feature set hadn't been 
frozen, in which case library authors have a moving target to chase. I 
stand to be corrected though.

Also, I have my fingers crossed that the "-> args { meth }" lambda 
syntax will be removed before then :-{
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