Does anyone have any idea when 1.9 will be ready for production
release?
On Sep 14, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Rong wrote:
Does anyone have any idea when 1.9 will be ready for production
release?
It is expected to release a few days before Christmas.
James Edward G. II
On Sunday 14 September 2008 22:00:24 James G. wrote:
On Sep 14, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Rong wrote:
Does anyone have any idea when 1.9 will be ready for production
release?It is expected to release a few days before Christmas.
Has anyone said which Christmas?
Besides which, I imagine that 1.9 will be “ready for production” when
it’s
called 2.0 instead.
On Sunday 14 September 2008 22:00:24 James G. wrote:
On Sep 14, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Rong wrote:
Does anyone have any idea when 1.9 will be ready for production
release?It is expected to release a few days before Christmas.
Did anyone say which Christmas?
I imagine it won’t be, at least, not when it’s still called 1.9 – isn’t
the “production” release going to be 2.0?
For what it’s worth, it seems reasonably stable to me. Most of the
problems
I’ve had with it have been some library which was broken by
backwards-incompatible changes – not an actual 1.9 bug.
(At least, not an implementation bug. There’s still a fairly serious
design
bug in the form of autoload.)
(Apologies if this is a duplicate message. My mailer decided to implode
just
as it was sending.)
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, David M. [email protected]
wrote:
I imagine it won’t be, at least, not when it’s still called 1.9 – isn’t
the “production” release going to be 2.0?
No, Matz announced about a year ago that instead of even minor version
numbers indicating production vs. experimental/development, a teeny
version
number > 0 would be the new indication, So 1.9.1 will be production.
Seems he is afraid of running out of digits.
–
Rick DeNatale
My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
On Sep 15, 2008, at 10:51 PM, David M. wrote:
On Sunday 14 September 2008 22:00:24 James G. wrote:
On Sep 14, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Rong wrote:
Does anyone have any idea when 1.9 will be ready for production
release?It is expected to release a few days before Christmas.
Has anyone said which Christmas?
Yes. Matz. At the Lone Star Rubyconf.
This Christmas.
Besides which, I imagine that 1.9 will be “ready for production”
when it’s called 2.0 instead.
The production release will be 1.9.1.
James Edward G. II
On Sep 16, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Gregory B. wrote:
Matz hates the idea of something like 1.8.10, though I don’t exactly
remember the story about it. I think it has to do with comparison
of version numbers as strings, or something else.
That’s right:
“1.8.9” < “1.8.10”
=> false
James Edward G. II
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30:10PM +0900, James G. wrote:
On Sep 16, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Gregory B. wrote:
Matz hates the idea of something like 1.8.10, though I don’t exactly
remember the story about it. I think it has to do with comparison
of version numbers as strings, or something else.That’s right:
“1.8.9” < “1.8.10”
=> false
Well, thank goodness I’m not the only person who has noticed this.
I’m not entirely convinced this is the best solution, but . . .
whatever.
I’m more interested in the software than the version numbering system,
anyway.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, David M. [email protected] wrote:
No, Matz announced about a year ago that instead of even minor version
numbers indicating production vs. experimental/development, a teeny version
number > 0 would be the new indication, So 1.9.1 will be production.Seems he is afraid of running out of digits.
Mostly unrelated, but it actually may be so. Matz hates the idea of
something like 1.8.10, though I don’t exactly remember the story about
it. I think it has to do with comparison of version numbers as
strings, or something else. Maybe someone here knows the back story.
-greg