Ruby 2.2.0 Time#parse TZ-related regression

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The article says this means Ruby hasn't followed Semantic Versioning, but that should be no surprise because Ruby already told us [1]:

"MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible."

[1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/ruby-version-po...

Yup. If he "was working on adding Ruby 2.2.0 support to Jekyll" that assumes that Jekyll which works with Ruby 2.1.0 doesn't already work with Ruby 2.2.0.

And if he's maintaining something significant in Ruby, how is he not aware that Ruby breaks compatibility even in patch releases...

Because knowing about something is not the same as being happy with it.

He didn't say, 'Oh my, I had no idea they would break things in a patch release'. What he did say was: 'Ugh.' and I agree with him.

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