From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3036 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Aug 2003 14:22:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30686 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 14:22:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:22:52 +0200 From: Tom Payne To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030810142252.GA30745@tompayne.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0 X-Archives-Salt: dc3a054b-a110-4895-b0e3-71a128b18a7f X-Archives-Hash: 8d2a54c6edd7f572f968164d08fe6d1c The new stable version of Ruby, 1.8.0, was released a few days ago. I would like to update all of dev-ruby to use 1.8.0, and depreciate 1.6.8 completely. Reasons for depreciating 1.6.8 are: 1) AIUI 1.6.8 is now dead and will not be maintained. 2) There are a number of (small) language changes that mean that will cause some 1.6.8 to break under 1.8.0. This means that maintaining 1.6.8 packages alongside 1.8.0 packages will be problematic. 3) 1.8.0 now includes a number of packages that were previously distributed separately (e.g. rexml, syck, optparse, webrick, racc, strscan, eruby, runit, xmlrpc). Creating virtuals for all of these packages so that users have the option of 1.6.8 or 1.8.0 would be a nightmare, especially since portage does not officially support versioned virtuals. Switching to 1.8.0 will also have downsides: 1) Forcing 1.6.8 users to upgrade may break their code. 2) Older 1.6.8 packages will no longer be supported. Comments? Complaints? Unless there is a huge cry of "keep 1.6.8!" I will being the migration on Mon 18 Aug. Cheers, Tom -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list