On Nov 28, 2006, at 1145 , Paul Lutus wrote:
> 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).

Granted, but if you could narrow down the problem somebody might be  
able to fix it.

>> 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.

The list shows 150, and a small percentage is under 10%, so under 15  
problems.

I'm sure that offhand you can name 1 of the 15 off the top of your  
head.  Can you file a bug for it?

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