On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>
> > pat eyler wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  - We need to consider what version number we might want for
> > > > JRuby.next...1.2? 2.0? Tom suggested 3.0 since it wouldn't confuse
> people
> > > > about JRuby 2.0/Ruby 2.0. I think it's open for discussion.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd go with 1.2 ... if you skip 2.0 to avoid name confusion, what will
> you do
> > > when Ruby 2.0 does hit the streets and you want to start working towards
> > > feature compatiblity with it?
> > >
> >
> > JRuby's likely to always have 1.8, 1.9 and eventually 2.0 features all in
> the same codebase, since it's not especially hard to do so. So I don't think
> we'll be tracking Ruby's version numbers in any way, but we may want to
> avoid the 2.0 moniker. I dunno, it's a toss up. Some of the work planned for
> this next cycle is going to be pretty invasive...and there may be
> backward-incompatible fixes to Java integration. That says 2.0 to me.
> >
> >
>  We can always do a repeated sequence out of the current releases. So that
> means the next major release should be 2.1 (1.0 + 1.1), and the one after
> that 3.2.
>  That way we will get really lovely and high version numbers quickly, while
> avoiding the sticky 2.0

HEH!  Nice

-Tom

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