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Ruby 2.2.1 Released

69 points by gregmolnar 12y ago

revskill 12y ago
Ruby is a Japanese product, the Japanese culture is "to live for the surrounded first, then for yourself", so i'm not surprised with continuous Ruby update through years. Thank you all Ruby developers!
- cmpb 12y ago
  It is an insanely well-managed product (IMO).
  - davexunit 12y ago
    It's not a "product", it's a project.
  - snurk 12y ago
    I believe it's a fairly poorly managed project, by looking at objective measures: * Key documents are inaccessible to majority of potential contributors because they're only in Japanese. * Releases are not semantic versioned. E.g., the second level version number is simply an indicator that another Christmas has passed. It's not an indicator of any semantics. * Press releases are untruthful and self-deceptive: "Ruby is now semantically versioned". On discussion with the core devs on this issue, they declare that semver actually isn't important. So, which is it? * A closed, insular development process with no public roadmap, and terse release notes. Cf. Python. I could go on. But these items alone are good evidence that the project is not "insanely well managed."
- snurk 12y ago
  I see more influence of the Japanese cultural phenomenon of insularity.
marvel_boy 12y ago
Great project that produced a great product.
- bdcravens 12y ago
  What product is that? Basecamp? Shopify? If you're referring to a framework, that's a "project" too :-)
  - fortytw2 12y ago
    The reference Ruby interpreter. :)
ch4s3 12y ago
Is there a roundup of what's in this other than the GC fix on symbols? Or is that the only change of note?
- cremno 12y ago
  The changelog? Perhaps the _two_ listed fixed issues (ffi build failure, Symbol GC memory leak) were just the most important ones according to the maintainer.
  - ch4s3 12y ago
    Some others: Fix dependencies to make bigdecimal installable by rubygems some updates to rb_hash_delete "restrict searching case-insensitive name from the filesystem to only last part, for the performance" file.c (rb_file_expand_path_internal): drop characters ignored by filesystem on Mac OS X. A GC fix on Solaris " DNS is case-insensitive, so the comparison should be case-insensitive as well" Some other OS specific fixes Misc
Argorak 12y ago
For all the complaints about CRuby, the recent years have been under the sign of steady improvement, on a predictable schedule. A new version on Christmas, patch version around February/March.

69 points by gregmolnar 12y ago

Ruby is a Japanese product, the Japanese culture is "to live for the surrounded first, then for yourself", so i'm not surprised with continuous Ruby update through years. Thank you all Ruby developers!

cmpb 12y ago
It is an insanely well-managed product (IMO).
- davexunit 12y ago
  It's not a "product", it's a project.
- snurk 12y ago
  I believe it's a fairly poorly managed project, by looking at objective measures: * Key documents are inaccessible to majority of potential contributors because they're only in Japanese. * Releases are not semantic versioned. E.g., the second level version number is simply an indicator that another Christmas has passed. It's not an indicator of any semantics. * Press releases are untruthful and self-deceptive: "Ruby is now semantically versioned". On discussion with the core devs on this issue, they declare that semver actually isn't important. So, which is it? * A closed, insular development process with no public roadmap, and terse release notes. Cf. Python. I could go on. But these items alone are good evidence that the project is not "insanely well managed."
snurk 12y ago
I see more influence of the Japanese cultural phenomenon of insularity.

marvel_boy 12y ago

Great project that produced a great product.

bdcravens 12y ago
What product is that? Basecamp? Shopify? If you're referring to a framework, that's a "project" too :-)
- fortytw2 12y ago
  The reference Ruby interpreter. :)

ch4s3 12y ago

Is there a roundup of what's in this other than the GC fix on symbols? Or is that the only change of note?

cremno 12y ago
The changelog? Perhaps the _two_ listed fixed issues (ffi build failure, Symbol GC memory leak) were just the most important ones according to the maintainer.
- ch4s3 12y ago
  Some others: Fix dependencies to make bigdecimal installable by rubygems some updates to rb_hash_delete "restrict searching case-insensitive name from the filesystem to only last part, for the performance" file.c (rb_file_expand_path_internal): drop characters ignored by filesystem on Mac OS X. A GC fix on Solaris " DNS is case-insensitive, so the comparison should be case-insensitive as well" Some other OS specific fixes Misc

Argorak 12y ago

For all the complaints about CRuby, the recent years have been under the sign of steady improvement, on a predictable schedule. A new version on Christmas, patch version around February/March.