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The new stable version of Ruby, 1.8.0, was released a few days ago. |
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I would like to update all of dev-ruby to use 1.8.0, and depreciate 1.6.8 |
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completely. Reasons for depreciating 1.6.8 are: |
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1) AIUI 1.6.8 is now dead and will not be maintained. |
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2) There are a number of (small) language changes that mean that will cause |
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some 1.6.8 to break under 1.8.0. This means that maintaining 1.6.8 packages |
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alongside 1.8.0 packages will be problematic. |
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3) 1.8.0 now includes a number of packages that were previously distributed |
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separately (e.g. rexml, syck, optparse, webrick, racc, strscan, eruby, |
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runit, xmlrpc). Creating virtuals for all of these packages so that users |
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have the option of 1.6.8 or 1.8.0 would be a nightmare, especially since |
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portage does not officially support versioned virtuals. |
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Switching to 1.8.0 will also have downsides: |
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1) Forcing 1.6.8 users to upgrade may break their code. |
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2) Older 1.6.8 packages will no longer be supported. |
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Comments? Complaints? |
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Unless there is a huge cry of "keep 1.6.8!" I will being the migration on |
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Mon 18 Aug. |
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Cheers, |
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Tom |
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