From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-12T10:08:05+09:00 Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 11/02/2009, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> In general, I don't have any doubt that 1.8.7 and 1.8.8 would be fine >> standalone releases, but making them be minor version number changes >> essentially forces everyone to upgrade eventually, whether they want to or >> not, since Ruby distributors generally don't expect a 0.0.x release to be >> filled with incompatible changes or additions. Ubuntu, for example, now >> installs 1.8.7 by default, so Ubuntu users are now much more likely to write >> code that doesn't work on 1.8.6. > > +1 I haven't checked Fedora recently, but openSUSE 11.1 ships Ruby 1.8.7 as well. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.