From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T07:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

Le 11 f�vrier 2009 � 22:53, Alex Fenton a �crit :

> Pit Capitain wrote:
>> 2009/2/11 Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>:
>>> Ruby 1.8.7 is NOT compatible with Ruby 1.8.6.
>> 
>> I've seen many people claiming this, and they might be right of
>> course, but no one has shown any examples yet. If it is so hard to
>> find 1.8.6 code that doesn't work with 1.8.7, the backward
>> compatibility of 1.8.7 seems to be pretty good.
> 
> Well, Rails. And many SWIG-based C-extensions - eg wxRuby.
> 
> But this misses the main point - that there is no assurance that code 
> developed using 1.8.7 (or 1.8.8) will run on 1.8.6. And no way of 
> checking, other than scrutinising the ChangeLog. This is a huge 
> disservice to library authors and users.

Somehow, I was wondering why the "new" code in 1.8.(7|8) isn't made
available through a library.

Something like :

require "compat-1.9"

Object.new.tap { |o| p o }

I guess that it's a lot of work if it's implemented in C, but maybe the
work that went into backporting the functionality was misdirected and
could have been more useful in doing a few ruby-written libraries to
help smoothen the transition...

My 2 euro-cents.

Fred
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