Question about the upgrade to new version

[doughal]

Tillmen, you mentioned in chat the other day about possibly upgrading lich to use the latest version of Ruby and that it would break things. I'm all for it, but I was wondering if there was any timeframe for this happening? I was thinking about picking up Ruby again and trying one more time to figure out scripting for the game (I get that bug every year or so.). Only, I don't really want to put all the effort into learning the whole list of current lich functions if they are all about to change, so I was curious about when you might be rolling that out, or if you have mapped out a list of new functions that would be in the new version?

[Tillmen]

The timeframe is.. um.. RSN.

[doughal]

Is that RSN real world RSN or Gemstone's 13 or 14 years from now RSN? lol

[Tgo01]

Wait, Ruby is going to break Lich features in a future update?

Nnnnnoooooooo!

[SpiffyJr]

Well, Ruby 1.8.7 is retired and 1.9/2.0 are both out. Lots of things can happen in two versions of a language (mostly backwards incompatible changes like deprecating methods).

[Whirlin]

kinda related
http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?10360-RSN

[glinty]

For what it's worth I've been running lich on linux with ruby 2.0 for months now without issues.

[doughal]

So since this is RSN... is the lich scripting reference on Krakii complete/comprehensive? http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Lich_scripting_reference

Or are there other functions that I should know about not listed there?