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Ruby 2.2.1 Released

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69 pointsgregmolnar12 comments

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!

It is an insanely well-managed product (IMO).

It's not a "product", it's a project.

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."

I see more influence of the Japanese cultural phenomenon of insularity.

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.

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

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.

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

Great project that produced a great product.

What product is that? Basecamp? Shopify? If you're referring to a framework, that's a "project" too :-)

The reference Ruby interpreter. :)

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