Phlip
2/1/2009 6:04:00 AM
James Britt wrote:
> Yugui wrote, "Ruby 1.8 series has been used since 2003 and many great
> products were born on it. Today Ruby 1.9 series starts its history as
> 1.8 series did."
>
> This suggests that, as 1.8 superseded 1.6, 1.9 now supersedes 1.8,
> making it the current Ruby (though 1.8 remains for those who prefer to
> use it).
>
> Is that a reasonable interpretation?
>
> 1.8.8 is planned for release. Why, and when does 1.8 development stop?
Do any of the leading Killer Apps, such as Rails, support 1.9?
> Put another way, for how long would people be expected that new code
> they write work on both 1.9 and 1.8? Or at what point would a developer
> tell users of 1.8 that backwards compatibility is no longer a priority?
What did the transition from 1.6 to 1.8 look like?