From: Zachary Brown <zac@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T04:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

As a new Ruby user coming to the language, I've found it fairly  
confusing as to which Ruby I should be using. I understand that 1.8.6  
via Pickaxe is a standard and so is 1.9.1 via David Black's upcoming  
book.

Coming from other projects, it would seem to me that making changes to  
1.8.x that aren't backwards compatible is a confusing message. I don't  
like the idea of have parts of 1.8.x incompatible with the rest of it.  
Thats nonsense.

+42 for not breaking backwards compatibility. 1.8.x made it this far,  
no need to introduce changes that are already in place in 1.9.x.

-Zac

On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> 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?
>
> My goal is to survey ruby-talk so that the core Ruby team has a chance
> to see what people really want.  I'm curious to see if this is as
> one-sided as I think it is.
>
> -greg
>
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