From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-12T00:59:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 released

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Thomas E Enebo <tom.enebo@gmail.com> wrote:
> The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.6.0.RC1.
>
> - Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/
> - Download: http://www.jruby.org/download
>
> JRuby 1.6.0.RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.6.0.
>
> JRuby 1.6.0 is the largest release of JRuby to date. This release
> fixes hundreds
> of user issues and brings compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 to a very high
> level. We
> have made Windows a primary supported platform by adding it as a continuous
> integration platform, and JRuby 1.6 will provide Windows-based Ruby users with
> the best experience yet. This release integrates experimental support for C
> extensions based on Ruby's C API. And as with all major releases, we have
> improved stability and performance across the board in response to real-world
> user input.
>
> We encourage Ruby and JRuby users alike to test out 1.6.0.RC1 to help us shake
> out remaining issues.  It would be especially helpful if users would test out
> 1.9 mode (by passing --1.9 flag) to help us round out our 1.9.2 compatibility
> before the final 1.6.0 release.
>
> Major Features:
>
> * Ruby 1.9.2 language and API compatibility
> ** Not implemented: Encoding::Converter, non-ASCII identifiers, ripper, fiddle
> * Improved Ruby call performance
> * Built-in profiler (--profile, --profile.graph)
> * RubyGems 1.4.2
> * RSpec no longer bundled
> * Ruby-debug gem unbundled, since it installs correctly now
> * C Extension support (experimental)
> * RubyGems Maven support (preview)
> * Improved compatibility and user experience on Windows
> * jruby-complete.jar now includes 1.9 standard library
> * Embedding API refinements
> * Over 2000 commits and 265 issues resolved.

Great!  Thanks a lot!

My first attempt at trying 1.9 mode failed miserably:

16:56:30 jruby.org$ vi /c/Temp/test.rb
16:56:42 jruby.org$ cat /c/Temp/test.rb

puts RUBY_VERSION

16:56:49 jruby.org$ jruby /c/Temp/test.rb
1.8.7
16:56:59 jruby.org$ jruby --1.9 /c/Temp/test.rb
Error opening script file: C:/Archives/jruby.org/c/Temp/test.rb (The
system cannot find the path specified)
16:57:06 jruby.org$

16:57:06 jruby.org$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

Somehow option --1.9 prevents recognition of the file although it
works without.  Any ideas?

Kind regards

robert

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