From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T21:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

2009/2/15 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>:
> At Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:10:58 +0900,
> Gregory Brown wrote in [ruby-talk:327704]:
>> I am setting up two threads in the hopes that we can see names
>> attached to opinions about the decision to break backwards
>> compatibility between Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.8.7+
>
> Could anyone summarize compatibility issues which really exist
> now?

The only things I remember from this long discussion are:

* The new String#chars clashed with a method of Rails
  with the same name

* It is not allowed anymore to create new objects during
  garbage collection (the SWIG problem)

Both are at least questionable to being categorized as breaking
backwards compatibility and seem to have been fixed. Everything else
that had been said here and in other threads had to be withdrawn.

Regards,
Pit