[Lunar-commits] <moonbase> ruby: rolling back to 1.8.7-p160

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Dave Brown dagbrown from lunar - linux org on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:51:30 +0000 
(14:51 +0900) wrote:
>ruby: rolling back to 1.8.7-p160.
>Ruby 1.9.x is the *BETA* version.  It is not, and will never be, the
>stable version of Ruby.  The next stable major version of Ruby will be
>version 2.0.

Can you please show me the source of this piece of information telling that 
this is not stable and not recommended version?

Did you rolled it back just because you consider it beta or you encounter any 
issues with this release?

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
(...) Ruby 1.9.1-p129 (md5: c71f413514ee6341c627be2957023a5c) Stable Version 
(recommended) (...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_language
(...)The official 1.9 branch uses YARV, as will 2.0 (development), and will 
eventually supersede the slower Ruby MRI.(...)

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lunar
ruby (1.9.1-p243)
My comment: Distrowatch shows only latest official releases

have a nice day,
Zbigniew Luszpinski