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

[Dennis Veatch]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 2:12:14 am Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> 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?
>

The only module I am aware of that remains croaked was obexftp (at latest 
version available). There might be others, don't know. rrdtool was another but 
a version bump fixed that.

> 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

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