From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15136 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Aug 2003 17:04:05 -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 15588 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 17:04:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:17 +0900 Message-ID: <86r83t8my2.wl%usata@gentoo.org> From: Mamoru KOMACHI To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030810142252.GA30745@tompayne.org> References: <20030810142252.GA30745@tompayne.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.6 (Wonderwall) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i686-gentoo-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ruby: depreciating 1.6.8 in favour of 1.8.0 X-Archives-Salt: f32a82e6-6cf7-4e4c-b698-b96507106fb2 X-Archives-Hash: 6eff4eb8110186a933dafe65e5a7f8e6 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 ;-) -- Mamoru KOMACHI http://dev.gentoo.org/~usata/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list