Ruby 1.9 becoming the standard?
There’s a lot of talk recently about pushing the Ruby Community onto Ruby 1.9.
Now that’s cool, the more people using 1.9 the quicker the issues will get ironed out
(people need to be spurred into fixing their libraries)
But there is one thing standing in the way of 1.9 being adopted by the whole community, Default Packages
Mac OSX comes with 1.8.6 as standard, Ubuntu 8.10 comes with 1.8.7.
Whitney Houston said “the children are our future”, and that’s exactly who we need to start using 1.9 right from the word go.
With Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and OSX Snow Leopard on their way out soon, surely if they adopted 1.9 as the default, we’d be on the road to success.
However, maybe that’s not going to happen.
A quick look at the packages of Jaunty Jackalope and you’ll see
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Ruby version (currently 1.8.x).
So I guess this thing’s not going to get fixed soon.
