Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2006, at 1055 , Paul Lutus wrote:
>> Also, Ruby 1.8.5 has some problems. I personally recommend that
>> people stick
>> with 1.8.4 unless they are intent on helping with the development
>> of Ruby
>> itself. This is MERELY a PERSONAL OPINION.
> 
> What problems?

See below for a Google list link.

Maybe someone will write an automated Usenet scraper to filter all the
reports of 1.8.5 difficulties and assemble them into a coherent summary
that removes what are obviously user problems, not Ruby problems.

In the meantime, there are any number of 1.8.5-related reports in the
archive for this newsgroup. See below.

> Have you filed bugs at the tracker:
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1698&group_id=426&func=browse

As to a problem that prevents 1.8.5 from working with the Qt library, I
wouldn't dream of filing against Ruby's code on this. It is far too complex
to make that assumption. It is no less completely broken, but it could turn
out to be a problem with Qt, or the interface class, whatever. 

But this is not the norm for 1.8.5 difficulties, many of which can be
demonstrated using command-line applications (and as the messages show in
the Google list below).

> I'd really like to know so I can fix them.
> 
> I have had zero problems with 1.8.5.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=1.8.5+problem+group%3A*ruby*

This is obviously an undigested list, and only a small percentage actually
refer to bugs in 1.8.5 as opposed to user difficulties, but there are quite
a few that show intrinsic 1.8.5 problems.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com