From: pat eyler Date: 2009-02-12T04:09:16+09:00 Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond At work, we've already been bitten by 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7 problems. I can't tell you how much I don't want to see 1.8.8 move even further away from 1.8.6. Please, leave the 1.8 line as compatible as possible, leave the API breakage to the 1.8 -> 1.9 migration. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Zachary Brown wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com >> Non-tech stuff at: http://metametta.blogspot.com >> "Ruby Best Practices" Book now in O'Reilly Roughcuts: >> http://rubybestpractices.com >> > > > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- Duty makes us do things, Love make us do things well. http://on-ruby.blogspot.com http://eldersjournal.blogspot.com