> Assuming the community provides patches that allow Rails to continue > working on 1.8.6, would the core team consider supporting 1.8.6? > > To put it another way, if there aren't hard technical problems in > supporting 1.8.6, why force 1.8.7 down the community's collective > throat?
My understanding is that there *are* hard technical problems present today. Yehuda and jeremy have more info, and perhaps the relevant problems can be backported to 1.8.6 making this a non-issue. I don't think anyone wants to prematurely abandon a functioning ruby, however we also don't want to continue supporting older interpreters forever. Even if we do support 1.8.6 for 3.0, the end of the line *is* coming, and we'd be best off preparing for that rather than attempting to hold back the tide of progress. -- Cheers Koz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
