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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:35:20
Message-Id: 20030811013518.GD3017@time
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0 by Ferris McCormick
1 Ferris McCormick wrote: [Sun Aug 10 2003, 12:31:07PM EDT]
2 > The "You might have to re emerge vim" comment needs to be made very clear;
3 > there doesn't seem to be any "maybe" about it (if you use vim+ruby),
4 > because the rebuild of vim is required because of the libruby version
5 > change.
6
7 That message was actually for another reason: Some library internals
8 changed in 1.8.0_pre5 which required vim to be remerged, even if it had
9 previously been linked against 1.8.0_pre4.
10
11 Nonetheless, you're right that the message could be updated, so I fixed
12 it. Now it says:
13
14 *
15 * Warning: Vim won't work if you've just updated ruby from
16 * 1.6.8 to 1.8.0 due to the library version change.
17 * In that case, you will need to remerge vim.
18 *
19
20 Aron