On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:17:09PM -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote: > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > But why a need for two versions at a time ? AFAICS, jruby 1.2 supports > > both ruby 1.8 *and* 1.9, as jruby 1.1 does, so why would jruby 1.1 > > still be needed ? > > As I said in my other mail, for transition reasons; > backward-compatibility is something many people like to *try* before > actually taking the leap.
Backward compatibility apply for ruby 1.8 vs ruby 1.9. I don't see it applying between jruby 1.1 and jruby 1.2, except for bugs. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
