From: Tim Hunter <sastph@...>
Date: 2009-07-01T13:10:07+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.
> 
No, you're right. Here's a summary:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/328269