From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T06:19:37+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

2009/2/12 Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:
> But I suppose what I'm saying is that from 1.8.2 up until 1.8.6, I did
> not once say "Wow! now I can do all this new cool stuff!".   I also
> didn't worry too much about whether code I wrote on my latest Ruby 1.8
> version would work in various out of date production environments.  I
> did not worry about patches from contributors having the same problem
> in my open source projects.

Yeah, I think I understand you, too. Of course you could develop right
away in 1.8.7 without using the new features. This code should still
work with 1.8.6. But it would require you to always think about this
necessity, and you would have no immediate feedback when you
accidentally used one of the new features.

> I apologize for using vague terminology about '1.8', it's probably the
> main source of dispute here.

There's absolutely no reason to apologize, Greg. To me the main source
of dispute was that so many people were telling "1.8.7 breaks
compatibility with 1.8.6" but almost no none could prove this.

Just one more remark to Joel's post, and then I'll definitely shut up.

2009/2/12 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>:
> "Ruby 1.8" is that which installs libraries into
> $PREFIX_DIR/lib/ruby/1.8 .

Hmm, currently this includes every release from 1.8.0 to 1.8.7, right?

Regards,
Pit