On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:07:13 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 29/01/14 at 22:02 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Anyway, just to be clear: I fully understand your reasoning and I agree > > that, without more Ruby maintainers, it makes sense to reduce the > > number of supported major versions. > > Another important point IMHO is that in the past (2005-2011?), there was > a split inside the ruby community about the real "stable" version: the > upstream devs felt it was the 1.9 branch, while everybody was still > using 1.8. This is similar to the situation of Python a couple of years > ago. > > But now, this seems to be resolved, and everybody has moved to 2.X, with > more gradual improvements and less incompatibility between new upstream > releases. So we are much more in a perl5-ish situation, and it doesn't > make much sense anymore to support several upstream branches in our > stable releases.
Thanks for your additional comment, Lucas. This aspect is definitely something to take into account. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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