From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-07-02T16:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS packages for Ruby?

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> I think people would be asking for a deprecation period

I never said you shouldn't do that. I just said you shouldn't go
around complaining about how your Ruby 1.0 script isn't gonna
work with 1.9 (*warning, exaggerated statement*).
Deprecation periods are of course good. But I just don't see why
people keep nagging about how 1.8.7 is sooo bad when mostly all
it did was add new features.

> and not suddenly in a swift move that can sometimes
> to a large company be really cost-ineffective.

If you sell a product that's based on Ruby, where's the problem
of shipping it with the ruby version it was developed with? At least
if your company is large. Ruby really isn't that
big a package? There are even tools that do this for you, if I
remember correctly (at least for Win32 I think).

Sure that statement may be true for big stuff like Java and its standard
library, but the 5 Megs of Ruby code you'd have to package up can't
be that much a burdon, can they?

Greetz,
k

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