From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T06:53:44+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On Feb 12, 4:13 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zzn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmob...@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.
>
> >        I feel that it is very important to keep a stable ruby 1.8.6 lineage
> > for some time to come.
>
> >        Matz has stated that he is willing to pass the torch on maintenance
> > of ruby1.8.6 and we would like to step up to the plate for the whole ruby
> > community. Please respond here if you think Engine yard would make good
> > maintainers of the ruby1.8.6 lineage
>

I'll like to jump late on this thread, but just not trying to add more
noise...

> Thanks!! Yes, I think you'd be ideal for this. I do have some questions, though:
>
> 1. Would there be a chance of merging the efficiencies of Ruby
> Enterprise Edition, especially copy-on-write friendliness, into the
> "Engine Yard 1.8.6 stack?"
>

CoW will not be cross-platform compatible (at least not for Windows).
The amount of changes needed by CoW are so big because the C code of
Ruby sometimes can be complicated.

> 2. Will this impact Rubinius?

I hope not, and I think it wouldn't.

> 3. Will there be a contribution to the Windows One-Click Installer
> project as part of this?

I wish they do, or at least merge contributions back :-)

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena