From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-02-01T15:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the "current" Ruby?

James Britt wrote:
> Yugui wrote,  "Ruby 1.8 series has been used since 2003 and many great 
> products were born on it. Today Ruby 1.9 series starts its history as 
> 1.8 series did."
> 
> This suggests that, as 1.8 superseded 1.6, 1.9 now supersedes 1.8, 
> making it the current Ruby (though 1.8 remains for those who prefer to 
> use it).
> 
> Is that a reasonable interpretation?
> 
> 1.8.8 is planned for release.  Why, and when does 1.8 development stop?

Do any of the leading Killer Apps, such as Rails, support 1.9?

> Put another way, for how long would people be expected that new code 
> they write work on both 1.9 and 1.8?  Or at what point would a developer 
> tell users of 1.8 that backwards compatibility is no longer a priority?

What did the transition from 1.6 to 1.8 look like?