From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2010-02-06T02:34:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Ruby 1.8.6 pl399 released

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Dan,

Many people have production applications running on 1.8.6 and upgrades would
happen at a cost that the company might not want to foot just yet.

Kirk maintains the 1.8.6 branch for such people back porting security
patches, bug fixes and enhancements from 1.8.7 so that such people can still
get the benefits & stability.

The upgrade path for some companies is excruciatingly slow :)

IMHO if you are new to ruby you should be using 1.9.X and don't look back.

  ~Wayne

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