From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T03:32:39+09:00
Subject: Re: time to back peddle? (Ruby 1.8.7)

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've heard nothing but bad commentary on this version of Ruby. What's
>> the word? Should I down-grade?
>
> For better or worse, the 187 branch is basically the only one that gets
> any attention from the core developers [i.e. patches] so...I'd say
> either one is ok.

Though support was dropped for Ruby <= 1.8.5, 1.8.6 is still
officially supported, AFAIK.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0]

-greg

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