@kares This one makes me nervous() IRubyObject.initialize() just feels like something I could see a native ext calling. OTOH it has been throwing Deprecated errors for 2+ years.

@enebo yeah I wasn't sure about this one either. feel free to postpone (or just remove milestone).

@kares I feel too leery on this one but I don't want it open until our next major reelase. So I am closing.

re-opening ... potentially to be considered for next major release

Any hope for this one? I just bumped into this exact same issue 😱

After looking at this again...I'm not really too scared of removing this long-deprecated method.

@enebo Worst case we'd have to restore it in 9.2.1, right?

@headius this is a significant release so I tend to agree with you. As you say worst-case revert if we get too many troubles :)