From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS6939 64.71.128.0/18 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER shortcircuit=no autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Wong Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.ruby.io-splice.general Subject: dropping 1.8 compatibility? Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 00:29:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20100527072925.GA16976@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: <20100527072925.GA16976@dcvr.yhbt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274945395 10788 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2010 07:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:29:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ruby.io.splice@librelist.com Original-X-From: ruby.io.splice@librelist.com Thu May 27 09:29:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclrig-ruby.io.splice@m.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20100527072925.GA16976@dcvr.yhbt.net> List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list Original-Sender: ruby.io.splice@librelist.com Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.ruby.io-splice.general:2 Archived-At: Received: from zedshaw.xen.prgmr.com ([64.71.167.205]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHXXM-0007Cu-Ai for gclrig-ruby.io.splice@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 09:29:52 +0200 Received: from zedshaw.xen.prgmr.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by zedshaw.xen.prgmr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9116C21A900 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 07:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Hi all, I've noticed that 1.8 support is actually broken in corner cases if blocking file descriptors are exposed to this library. Since it's time consuming to maintain 100% proper 1.8 compatibility with the green threading implementation, I'm strongly considering just dropping it. Actually, is anybody using this at all besides me? :) -- Eric Wong