From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T02:56:15+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> As for numbering, it's not so important, but the current scheme is  
> silly
> and appears to be based on an irrational fear of exceeding 1.9.  
> AFAICT,
> this is either because the string "1.10" doesn't sort after "1.9", or
> because 2.0 would somehow imply the language is especially "blessed"  
> or
> "finalised".

I have no problems with the 1.9 release.  I feel like the reasoning  
has been well explained and I understand it.

Essentially, a lot was promised for 2.0.  About half of it has been  
built.  We could have kept waiting for the other half, or release what  
was done.  It's not all of 2.0 though, so it's instead called 1.9.

Also, it was decided that it's silly to lose an entire branch for  
development (like 1.7).  Thus x.x.0 now means development and we only  
lose one version number.  That's why 1.9.1 is the first stable release  
of the 1.9 branch.

I feel like that all makes sense.

James Edward Gray II