Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0

[Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@gentoo.org>]

Hi all,

At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:58:10 +0900,
I wrote:

> I added dev-lang/ruby-1.6.8-r2 and dev-lang/ruby-1.8.0-r1 (both
> ebuilds are masked by package.mask) to support SLOT'd ruby.

I unmasked ruby-1.6.8-r2 and ruby-1.8.0-r1. If you have installed
<=ruby-1.6.8-r1 or =ruby-1.8.0, please unmerge them first and upgrade
to ruby-1.6.8-r2 and/or ruby-1.8.0-r1.

At Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:22:52 +0200,
Tom Payne wrote:

> I would like to update all of dev-ruby to use 1.8.0, and depreciate 1.6.8
> completely.

> 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.

Ruby 1.8.1 will be available in the near future (I just committed
ruby-1.8.1_pre2.ebuild) and I think it is the time to switch to
1.8. If users want ruby-1.6.8 along with 1.8.x they will be able to
use both 1.6.8 and 1.8.x (since they have different SLOT now). We will
concentrate on supporting packages for 1.8 from now on but keep 1.6.8
packages as well in case some packages may still be broken.

Any comments?


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