Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: Removal of Ruby MRI 1.8; Ruby MRI 1.9 and 2.0 now default

[Alex Legler]

On 08.03.2014 14:25, Alex Xu wrote:
> On 08/03/14 05:37 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 01:46:52 +0000 (UTC)
>> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 0         1         2         3         4
>>> 012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
>>> Ruby MRI 1.8 removal; 1.9 recommended default
>>>
>>> (The latter is GLEP 42's max 44 chars exactly, and accurately
>>> represents the recommended eselect ruby setting.)
>>
>>   $ x="Ruby MRI 1.8 removal; 1.9 recommended default" ; echo ${#x}
>>  45
>>
>> Since you have started with 0 instead of 1, you have one character
>> more; thus we'll need to find another character to cut, since that
>> doesn't seem possible I suggest we drop the word "default" instead.
>>
>>   $ x="Ruby MRI 1.8 removal; 1.9 recommended" ; echo ${#x}
>>  37
>>
>
> $ x="Ruby MRI 1.8 removal; 1.9 now recommended" ; echo ${#x}
> 41
>

I hereby make trademark claim to the name 'GLEP 42 Title Golf'.

Also, I doubt we're recommending 1.9 over 2.0 (or vice versa).

-- 
Alex Legler <a3li@g.o>
Gentoo Security/Ruby/Infrastructure