From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T04:08:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary #20112 - 20158

ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote:
> >Matz posted the reasons why the development of rite
> >is slow:
> >
> > * it's hard to maintain 1.6.
> 
> Wouldn't it be best if someone else (or multiple someone elses) took over 
> maintenance of the stable releases, thus freeing matz to work on rite?  I 
> think this is what they do in the Perl world; Larry doesn't have to worry 
> about maintaining Perl 5 stuff, others do that while Larry is working on 
> Perl 6.
> 
> > * specification of 1.8 is not freezed.
> 
> Is this related to the 'there are still some problems of 1.8:" section 
> below?

Yes.

> > * it's easy to change 1.8.
> 
> What does this mean?

Sorry, I mean that it's easier for Matz to maintain 1.8
than to tackle Rite.

> > * there's concern about 1.9
> 
> What is the concern?

New features of 1.9, ex. M17N, new regex engine, generational
GC, new (original) stdio, and so on.
 see: [ruby-talk:35416] [ruby-talk:36757] [ruby-core:937]
      [ruby-core:939]


Regards,

TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi     E-mail: maki@rubycolor.org