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From: Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r83t8my2.wl%usata@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030810142252.GA30745@tompayne.org>

Hi,

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

> Switching to 1.8.0 will also have downsides:
> 
> 1) Forcing 1.6.8 users to upgrade may break their code.

Why don't you create ruby-shim ebuild for 1.6.8 users to keep using
1.6.8 for a while?  I noticed some ruby scripts are broken with ruby
1.8.0 and don't want to upgrade ruby to 1.8 on several machines.
Ruby-shim will not be maintained for long periodes, but still
it is useful for us to get smooth transition.

> 2) Older 1.6.8 packages will no longer be supported.

I disagree with this option because there will be a certain number of
people who stick to use 1.6.8 and they will want packages supporting
1.6.8 as well as 1.8.  Of course I am one of those ;-)

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Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@gentoo.org>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-10 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-10 14:22 [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0 Tom Payne
2003-08-10 16:31 ` Ferris McCormick
2003-08-11  1:35   ` Aron Griffis
2003-08-10 17:03 ` Mamoru KOMACHI [this message]
2003-08-11  1:25 ` Aron Griffis
2003-10-11 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] SLOT support for ruby Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-10-31 18:50   ` [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0 Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-10-31 21:03     ` Ferris McCormick

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