[SVN] Re: Changes for Ruby 1.9

[James Gray]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> Setting up TextMate so I can easily switch back and forth from 1.8.x  
> to
> 1.9 is something I haven't figured out yet, but I might. I'd really
> just like to concentrate on 1.9 and forget about the past though...

With all due respect, that's a little silly.  :)

I'm a die hard Rubyist and I'm very impressed with many things in Ruby  
1.9.  I can't wait until we're all using it for everything.  But,  
that's not yet the case.

The current 1.9 is a preview release.  We expect to see the first  
stable 1.9 around Christmas.  Until then, it's still a bit of a moving  
target unsuited to most production code.

The majority of Rubyists the world over are going to be sticking with  
1.8 just a bit longer for that reason.

It's also very trivial to have two installs side by side:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0]
$ ruby_dev -v
ruby 1.9.0 (2008-03-01 revision 15664) [i686-darwin9.2.0]

Anyway, that's my two cents worth.

James Edward Gray II