From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T02:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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2009/2/11 Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>

> I am setting up two threads in the hopes that we can see names
> attached to opinions about the decision to break backwards
> compatibility between Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.8.7+
> This one is for those who wish that Ruby 1.8 would go *back* to being
> 1.8.6 compatible in Ruby 1.8.8.   If you agree with this, share your
> thoughts or at least a simple '+1'.  If you disagree, please find the
> other thread titled 'If you are happy with the direction of Ruby
> 1.8.7, respond'.  If you are in the middle, I don't know what you
> should do... write two posts?



I'm not sure whose problem this really is, but it's worth bearing in mind
that in certain Linux package systems, there is just one 'ruby1.8' package
and one 'ruby1.9' package, each of which ships the latest from that branch.
The same goes for the 'gem' executable, so you only get one gem repo per
'major' version -- you don't get a 1.8.6 gem repo and a 1.8.7 repo, you just
get one for all 1.8.x releases.

Keeping 1.8.x back-compatible with prior 1.8.x seems like it would minimise
confusion for a lot of people and reduce the burden of testing libraries
against multiple Rubys.

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