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I'm not 100% sure on the history, but I believe 1.9.x started as a dev release and then they changed their minds and decided it was a wide release. That initial

I'm not 100% sure on the history, but I believe 1.9.x started as a dev release and then they changed their minds and decided it was a wide release. That initial confusion might be why the community took the time to go from 1.8 to 1.9. I think they've learned from that, as 2.0 looks like a much cleaner/easier transition.

stormbrew 14y ago
On the other hand, it means we've now had point and minor releases that broke everything (1.9, 1.8.7, and I think even one or two of the 1.8.7 patch releases actually backported breaking 1.9 features), while the major release is apparently one where nothing from the prior release should break. I'm not convinced that means they've 'learned their lesson' so much as that they still don't know how to version things. We'll see how 2.1 goes, I guess.
- Kerrick 14y ago
  Indeed. I hope that ruby itself starts following the semantic versioning [0] that is so popular with ruby developers. Now that they have a "clean slate" with a 2.0.0 release, they could! [0] http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/