From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T01:17:33+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<zznmeb@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Someone suggested having 1.8.8 being 1.8.6 syntax and semantics with
> only bug fixes, security fixes and efficiency enhancements. That appeals
> to me ... that way, "1.8.7" is a development release and "1.8.8" is
> stable.


Bad idea, IMHO.

This would mean that  Ruby 1.8.8, would be backwards compatible with Ruby
1.8.6, but NOT with Ruby 1.8.7, which might be good for needing to say with
the  Ruby 1.8.6 definition, but not those who are already using Ruby 1.8.7.


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