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thibaut_barrere | 4 months ago

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 quite a lot of work on the apps I worked on.

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dragonwriter|4 months 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.