From: dan@...
Date: 2010-02-06T02:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 released

Kirk Haines <wyhaines@gmail.com> writes:

> Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 has been released. This release fixes a problem that
> was encountered yesterday with builds on some platforms. The only
> difference between pl399 and pl398 is that pl399 required a minor
> syntax change in one macro, and purged some dead code left behind by
> earlier changes.

Forgive my ignorance, but why would one want to use this instead of
1.8.7?  Is 1.8.7 closer to the bleeding edge than I believed it was, or
is the 1.8.6 line maintained purely for existing applications that
really really don't need *any* API changes?

I'm sure there's a perfectly sensible reason for apparently having three
MRI versions (1,8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.x) on the go at once, but I don't know
what that reason is or where the boundaries are.  


-dan