From: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T03:44:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I upgrade Ruby from 1.8.5 to 1.8.7?

It might not be that hard to suck every version of the Ruby source  
into git.   Then they could all be downloaded efficiently all at  
once.   After that a ruby script could build several of the key stable  
versions, install them, and then install another script called  
something like rubyswitch.  Running rubyswitch <version>  would change  
the currently active version by changing the path.  Then the test  
cycle would be faster and falling back would be trivial.


On May 5, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Cali Wildman wrote:

> So it seems like there are enough chatter on various blogs, etc that
> raises some 1.8.7 incompatibility concerns, here's a specific  
> example on
> Rails Forum
> http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=96484#p96484
>
> Quote: "I wanted to create a hash from an array, so I used:
> Hash[my_array] in 1.8.7, which has to be rewritten to  
> Hash[*my_array] in
> 1.8.6"
>
> Also, it seems like Engineyard has committed to maintain 1.8.6 branch
> for the same concern,
> http://www.h-online.com/open/Ruby-1-8-6-going-to-the-Engineyard--/news/112685
>
> While I agree that this might not be unique regarding incompatible
> upgrades singling out 1.8.7, it does appear there is momentum in the  
> dev
> community to stick with 1.8.6 until 1.9 is released. As such, if most
> developers use 1.8.6, then there is better overall support for issues,
> etc.
>
> Long story short, it seems like 1.8.6 is the way to go for now.
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>