[Rock-dev] A small look ahead ... Ruby 1.9 is going to die.

[Sylvain Joyeux]

> Sounds good to me. Will discontinue 1.9 support mean that we will actively
> encourage to break backward compatibility?

To me: yes, because ruby 2.0+ has keyword arguments which would
finally allow to get rid of Kernel.validate_options, replacing it by a
built-in language feature (cleaner, automatically documented) that is
two times faster (once
https://github.com/orocos-toolchain/utilrb/pull/9 is applied ...
currently it is up to 8 times faster ...)

Honestly, it is one of the reasons why I want to push for it.

Sylvain