From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2009-07-01T02:07:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS packages for Ruby?

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
>> 1.8.7 is actually not a great release. It breaks things that worked in 
>> 1.8.6, and most people either stay on 1.8.6 or upgrade straight to 1.9.1.
> 
> Not to open a can of worms, but when this statement came up last, the 
> ruby-talk list was asked for concrete justification of what actually 
> broke code going to 1.8.7, and IIRC there really wasn't much. Maybe I'm 
> misremembering though.

Perhaps.  But if you are running 1.8.7, and writing code for general 
distribution, is there not a real chance you will end up with code that 
only works with 1.8.7?

Or is that another misconception? (Perhaps there's some shim, 
grant_187-ness.rb, that will adjust any misbehavior.)


Finally, is there a thread or Web site that explains why 1.8.7 would be 
preferred over 1.8.6 or 1.9?


Thanks!

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James Britt

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