Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Alex Legler <a3li@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: Ruby 1.8 with Oniguruma patches, ruby-config
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:02:53
Message-Id: 1242399552.1398.5.camel@localhost
1 # Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> (15 May 2009)
2 # Masked for removal wrt bug #251833. Due for removal in 30 days.
3 # Use app-admin/eselect-ruby instead.
4 dev-ruby/ruby-config
5 =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p114
6
7 Ruby _p114 is the last Ruby with Oniguruma patches, however there are numerous security issues. Ruby 1.9.1 will contain Oniguruma again, people needing it in 1.8 can use a gem [1].
8 ruby-config is superseded by eselect-ruby.
9
10 Cheers,
11 Alex
12
13 [1] http://oniguruma.rubyforge.org/

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