From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T03:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Gregory Brown
> <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Engine Yard is willing to step up as the official maintainer of
>>>> ruby1.8.6. We can provide the right amount of human resources as well as
>>>> server and QA resources with automated CI running the rubyspecs.
>>
>>> Although, I'm at a loss as to what you'd use for the version number on the
>>> first maintenance release.
>>
>> Just a thought...
>>
>> RUBY_VERSION #=> "1.8.6"
>> EY_RUBY_VERSION #=> "1.0.0"
>>
>
> which probably means Ruby 1.8.6.1 or Ruby186 1.0

Yeah, I think maybe 1.8.6.1 is a better idea than what I offered, actually.

-greg

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