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Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 has been fairly hard, despite being a minor version change. Strings became Unicode, this broke tons of stuff. Also hash ordering. This caused q

• dragonwriter 1y ago
  > Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 has been fairly hard, despite being a minor version change. Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was a major version change in the semver sense; Ruby wasn't using Semver before, IIRC, 2.1.0, it was using a scheme that was basically loosely like Semver with an extra prefix number. Ruby minor versions were equivalent semver major (and also had a less-stable implication for odd numbers, more stable for even, Ruby “tiny” versions were equivalent to semver minor, and Ruby still had patch versions.