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

[Ferris McCormick <fmccor@inforead.com>]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Mamoru KOMACHI wrote:

> 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.
>

.......

> 
> 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?
> 
>

Sounds good to me.  I have been using ruby-1.8.0 on one of my (gentoo) 
sparc systems since late August with no problems.  My ruby use isn't
all that heavy, but it's enough > 0 that I was getting ready to send off
a query addressing this very subject, but you have preempted me.

As to 1.6.8 -vs- 1.8.x --- for me, at least, for some applications I am
forced into 1.8.0 because of the improved garbage collector performance.
(Along those lines, I'd like an easy way to set
 '-DGC_MALLOC_LIMIT=32000000' or some such in the CFLAGS for the build, 
rather than having to do it by hand, but that's another story....)

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> Mamoru KOMACHI <usata@gentoo.org>
> http://www.gentoo.org/~usata/
> 
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> 
Regards,
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