Ruby compatibility debacle(s)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Some people just can’t stop achieving! Not content with introducing breaking, backwards-incompatible changes into the Ruby 1.8 branch with 1.8.7, the Ruby Core team have shot for the moon, gone for gold, and doubled down all their bets - and made Ruby 1.8.6-p230 incompatible with Ruby 1.8.6-p(any other version). Of course, there is an URGENT!!!111ONE zero days exploit or something in any version of 1.8.6 that’s not the one released today - the incompatible one.
So let’s sum this up:
Ruby 1.9.0 = incompatible with Ruby 1.8.x
Ruby 1.8.7 = incompatible with Ruby 1.8.6
Ruby 1.8.6-p230 = incompatible with Ruby 1.8.6-p(<230)
Ruby 1.8.6-p(<230) = UR SERVER IZ OWNED LOL
Well that is just fucking great. Well, I guess if your app won't start, no one can hack it! Can't get more secure than that! Mission accomplished!
It seems like this Ruby Spec project is arriving not a fucking moment too soon. When the core team can’t even keep Ruby 1.8.6 compatible with, uh, Ruby 1.8.6, we got problems.