Yeah I was agreeing that 1.9 mode could satisfy most users who want
1.8.7 features (which are largely the backported 1.9 stuff) and that
our normal mode is still 1.8.6 until the mainstream Rubyists decide
1.8.7 is the horse to follow (not sure how we figure that out but it
is clear that has not happened yet).
-Tom
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I assue you mean "only target 1.8.6 and 1.9" yeah?
>
> Yes, 1.8.7 is certainly a conundrum. Anyone who would consider moving to it
> would probably be better served moving to 1.9.1 when it's released in a few
> months. And nobody in their right mind would create code that *only* works
> in 1.8.7. So I don't see a good reason to support 1.8.7 right now either. If
> after 1.9.1 comes out people start moving to 1.8.7 en masse (yeah right)
> perhaps we can reconsider.
>
> Thomas E Enebo wrote:
>>
>> I agree with you. Until 1.8.7 is the release everyone is using we
>> should not be targeting it piece-meal. 1.9 mode could satisfy peoples
>> desire for these features, but for me we need trunk to target the most
>> common Ruby version and only one version.
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Marcin Mielżyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Most 1.8.7 features that came from 1.9.1 are to make transition from 1.8
>>> to
>>> 1.9 series easier. Majority of them is just a copy (with minor changes to
>>> match 1.8.x api), but there is a lot of tricky examples that behave
>>> _differently_ under 1.9.x, 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, like:
>>>
>>> puts [1,2,3].select.each{|e| p e}
>>>
>>> For example, Kernel#p is to blame here since it returns it's argument in
>>> 1.9
>>> but not in 1.8.7, it doesn't make sense to port all the behavior from
>>> 1.9.x
>>> to 1.8.7 since it would end up 1.9.x just without yarv and all the fancy
>>> syntax features (well, and encoding support of course).
>>>
>>> Of course, nobody should ever rely on such temporal 1.8.7 behavior. So,
>>> my
>>> thinking is: since jruby is already trying to support both modes in
>>> common
>>> code base, we don't need 1.8.7 mode at all, 1.9 mode _is_ there with a
>>> flick
>>> of the wrist by just typing --1.9.
>>>
>>> Marcin
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