Now I'm wondering how you are taking "support" here. I didn't take it to mean "offer formal support for." That is, there's no phone number or email where someone will respond, is there?
When you say "these sort of projects", I assume you mean open source. When I look at Vim.org or Perl.org, they explain how to get source or binaries and install on various operating systems and distros. There's no differentiation in level of support or otherwise. This may be what you mean by "not supporting", but I found Ruby's explicit division of levels of support surprising.
Tenderlove's note explains things, but again I worry that the wording of the release notice may be off-putting to PHBs. Probably they are not Ruby's target audience - though I see plenty of discussion, books and conferences about Ruby for the Enterprise.
I don't mean to dwell on any of this in a bad way, and again I'm not complaining. I've never seen explicit divisions of support on something like Ruby before, so I posted.
No I mean support in the same sense you do. Their "supported" OS's are obviously just things they have access to, and know that it compiles & tests fine there.
E.g. they only have AIX 5 in "perhaps", that's only in the "Best Effort" category in Perl's case because a few dedicated individuals still build and test on it before release.
When you say "these sort of projects", I assume you mean open source. When I look at Vim.org or Perl.org, they explain how to get source or binaries and install on various operating systems and distros. There's no differentiation in level of support or otherwise. This may be what you mean by "not supporting", but I found Ruby's explicit division of levels of support surprising.
Tenderlove's note explains things, but again I worry that the wording of the release notice may be off-putting to PHBs. Probably they are not Ruby's target audience - though I see plenty of discussion, books and conferences about Ruby for the Enterprise.
I don't mean to dwell on any of this in a bad way, and again I'm not complaining. I've never seen explicit divisions of support on something like Ruby before, so I posted.