Ruby 1.8.0

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if Matz or another Ruby hacker has a tentative release
date for Ruby 1.8.0 final.

Any info will be apreciated!

George Moschovitis,
Navel

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Hi,

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In message “Ruby 1.8.0” on 03/06/05, George Moschovitis gm@navel.gr writes:

I was wondering if Matz or another Ruby hacker has a tentative release
date for Ruby 1.8.0 final.

I will release preview3 soon after REXML is checked in to the CVS.
The final release should be followed.

						matz.
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Is the TODO file in CVS intended to be for 1.8.0? I’ve been checking
it periodically to try to guess when the release would be.

Steve

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In article 1054876701.800866.24581.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp,

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Yukihiro Matsumoto matz@ruby-lang.org wrote:

Hi,

In message “Ruby 1.8.0” > on 03/06/05, George Moschovitis gm@navel.gr writes:

I was wondering if Matz or another Ruby hacker has a tentative release
date for Ruby 1.8.0 final.

I will release preview3 soon after REXML is checked in to the CVS.
The final release should be followed.

matz,

Any chance we’ll see raa-install included in 1.8.0?

see the petition at:

Phil

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I suppose it is more general purpose… I just asked matz about the
Generational GC in the todo and he told me that it is planned for 1.9

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il Sat, 07 Jun 2003 19:53:59 GMT, slumos@unlv.edu ha scritto::

Is the TODO file in CVS intended to be for 1.8.0? I’ve been checking
it periodically to try to guess when the release would be.

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I should note a few important issues with raa-install that should be cleared
up before acceptance into 1.8.0. Many of these could be cleared up quickly,
but still represent some barrier to entry.

First, raa-install is accessing compressed YAML at
http://narf-lib.sf.net/raa/. The information on RAA has been condensed to
20k or so (for the benefit of our dialup friends worldwide). By comparison,
the YAML file on RAA [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/raa-yaml.yml] is well over
600k.

So the dilemma is: do we want something in the Ruby dist dependant on a 3rd
party URL? Probably not. So we’ll need to consider compressed offerings on
RAA.

Secondly, raa-install depends on a number of modules which can be deprecated
for 1.8.0. The ‘raainstall/stringio’ and ‘raainstall/raaopen’ modules would
clutter 1.8.0. So we’d need to strip all 1.6-isms from raa-install and test.

There’s not much to do, but worth mentioning the obstacles. The RAA metadata
involving a bit o’ teamwork.

_why

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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:47 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:

Any chance we’ll see raa-install included in 1.8.0?

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Hi,

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In message “Re: Ruby 1.8.0 (will raa-install be included?)” on 03/06/11, Phil Tomson ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com writes:

Any chance we’ll see raa-install included in 1.8.0?

As Why answered already, it requires some work before inclusion. I’m
not against put it in the standard distribution, but I guess it’s too
late for 1.8.0.

						matz.