From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 21:18:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAD4mYgMp+44ZO_TLCnoVCmv1Nch-DtL_4aL7C-WRsyiBBN1MQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170902213730.GA13386@hades.fritz.box>
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Marvin Gülker <m-guelker@phoenixmail.de> wrote:
> Am 02. September 2017 um 22:57 Uhr +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>:
>> OK, so disclaimer up front. I detest Ruby. I hate it with a passion.
>
> There is nothing one can do against that, but...
>
>> Each new minor version of ruby is a whole new language and the devs
>> are OK with large breaking changes between minor version numbers.
>
> ...this is factually incorrect. There are new features added quite
> often, but minor versions are generally backwards-compatible. The one
> exception was the 1.8->1.9 switch years ago.
One of the reasons I dislike Ruby is that there is no complete
specification of the language available, making this statement
(technically) untestable. Seeing as the OP is saying there are 3
versions queued for merge and he has not installed any of them by hand
it looks like Alan is right. Perhaps the OP is using "old" Ruby based
software, but software of that age in another language could work on
new interpreters.
Cheers,
R0b0t1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-03 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-02 13:33 [gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously???? Andrew Lowe
2017-09-02 13:57 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-09-02 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-09-02 21:37 ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-03 2:18 ` R0b0t1 [this message]
2017-09-03 10:31 ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-03 20:35 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04 6:49 ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-04 17:07 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04 17:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-09-04 21:15 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-04 20:32 ` Marvin Gülker
2017-09-04 23:40 ` R0b0t1
2017-09-05 12:46 ` konsolebox
2017-09-03 6:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans de Graaff
2017-09-03 5:54 ` Hans de Graaff
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