On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > I just heard from David Hansson that they're going to start recommending > Ruby 1.8.7 as the default for Rails. I'm not sure if that means they're > going to start using 1.8.7 features or not, but this may be the push needed > to make 1.8.7 a bit more standard. > > I don't think we need to leap on 1.8.7 stuff just yet, but it's something to > keep in mind. Largely I think we'll be able to just use 1.9 impls of stuff, > modulo behavioral differences where appropriate, so I don't expect it's > going to be a huge effort. > > I'm also not sure if we want to completely move to 1.8.7 and drop 1.8.6, or > if we want to add another compatibility mode. Both ways have merit...
Indeed. The 1.8.x situation is very confusing. I even saw that 1.8.8 will come out. So: 1. distros do not keep score and are shipping latest versions. So new users start with 1.8.7 now 2. most (non-new) people are still using 1.8.6 pl whatever 3. 1.8.8 is on the horizon 4. 1.9.1 is out We have 2 and 4 covered. We could add a --1.8.7 or something, but this seems like a slippery slope. Not sure I have have formed an opinion yet. ick. -Tom -- Blog: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ThomasEEnebo Email: [email protected] , [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
