From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2009-07-01T04:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS packages for Ruby?

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Joel VanderWerf<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> 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.

Nope, you're right. I started that thread, and we really couldn't get
anybody to post concrete examples of problems with 1.8.7.


~ j.