From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T09:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> And note also that Ruby core has only a few resources to maintain Ruby
> versions...which means the existence of 1.8.7 and plans for 1.8.8 will
> eventually force 1.8.6 to be abandoned like 1.8.5 and 1.8.4. How would
> you feel about 1.8.6 being EOLed because of 1.8.7 and 1.8.8 taking up
> resources?

This can of course be avoided if someone else follows me to continue supporting
1.8.6.  Merging back upper stream changes into 1.8.6 is actually easy; it is an
automated process and you do not have to write C until "svn merge" conflicts
something.  The harder part is to decide which one to merge.