From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13229 invoked by uid 1002); 31 Oct 2003 21:12:53 -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 17344 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2003 21:12:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:03:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Ferris McCormick To: Mamoru KOMACHI cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <86d6cdz1f2.wl%usata@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <20030810142252.GA30745@tompayne.org> <86d6cdz1f2.wl%usata@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 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: 3a2d9656-abf4-49e0-8c57-734b5623d993 X-Archives-Hash: 702a29585709f5af9ad43c9fb5489914 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....) > -- > Mamoru KOMACHI > http://www.gentoo.org/~usata/ > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list