I'm a firm believer on maintaining stability and allowing code to run
the same in tomorrow's release as it did in yesterday's (simply: 1.8.5
should not function different from 1.8.4 or any prior/future versions
of that stable branch).

With that being said, if any major changes are going to be made, just
stick it in 1.9, yay :)

On 6/16/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Absolute paths in $""
>    on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire / gmail.com writes:
>
> |Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
> |relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
> |now.
>
> I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
> Any opinion?
>
>                                                        matz.
>
>


-- 
Matt