I think if we don't go to ruby 1.9, ruby and rails will get stuck in a similar thing that happened with java 1.2 1.4 and 1.5.
Come on guys, these are all open source projects. If something isn't working on a newer version, how much work would it be to get it to work? just my 2cents On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 20:29, Rick DeNatale<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jeremy Evans<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey Jeremy, >>> I apologize for the delay. >>> The basic idea is that there are a number of issues in Ruby 1.8.6 that are >>> simply not going to be fixed > >> First, thank you very much for your detailed post. I don't have any >> reason to believe that migrating to 1.8.7 will be difficult. It's >> just that running on 1.8.7 makes it more likely that I'll accidently >> use features that aren't supported on 1.8.6, and I want other >> libraries I develop (mainly Sequel) to support 1.8.6. > > The answer to this is to test your code against multiple versions. > There are tools such as multiruby (part of ZenTest) which make this > easy. I currently test my ri_cal gem against 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 > >> I'm glad that Rails 3 is requiring ruby 1.8.7 for technical reasons >> and not just to try to push the community in a certain direction. > > I think it's more of a pull than a push. > > I still think that 1.8.6 needs to live on, only because there are > still apps out there with dependencies (like old Rails versions) which > require it, for which migration to a newer version is not justifiable. > > For a new app, particularly one written to Rails 3, I'd probably just > start with Ruby 1.9. I'm still not convinced that 1.8.7 is either > fish or fowl. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
