From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T00:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.6-p287 in Debian 4

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry to Matz and ruby-core, but Ruby 1.8.7 is a failed experiment.
I really wish they would just retire the release and move forward with
a 1.8.6-base Ruby 1.8.8, and focus the rest of the remaining energy on
1.9.1

> 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 :-(

p287 seems to work.  It's the first one since 114 that hasn't caused
problems for me.  Have you had issues with it?

-greg

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