Very interesting - thanks for the details. Steve C.
Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > Hi Steve, > 1.8.7 has had many issues for which a lot of frequent patches have been > coming in, we're waiting for that traffic to subside/stabilize. > Secondly, Rails doesn't recommend Ruby 1.8.7 yet. > > We've had Solaris performance patches accepted into 1.8.7. For now, > both webstack and coolstack have these patches applied directly to our > shipping version. (I didn't find any more performance enhancements for > Solaris in 1.8.7 other than what we've put in) > > Hence we're waiting a bit to bundle Ruby 1.8.7. > -ps > > Steven M. Christensen wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to update to 1.8.6-p230 >> instead of the most recent stable release 1.8.7-p22? The ruby site >> says about 1.8.7 - >> >> The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature >> enhancements back ported from 1.9 and some performance improvements >> since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility >> with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled >> documentation for details about compatibility issues. >> >> >> The ChangeLog is at >> >> http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog >> >> The Dos related patches are included in this 1.8.7 version as well. >> >> Steve Christensen >> >> Prashant Srinivasan wrote: >>> [setting Reply-to to webstack-discuss] >>> >>> Can someone review this patch from the upstream community? It >>> updates Ruby to 1.8.6-p230. Importantly it houses a fix for a >>> reported Security vulnerability. >>> >>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~psriniva/webrev-6721879-v2/ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -ps >>> >>> >>> >>> > >
