[Mageia-dev] Updating ruby to 1.9.3?

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Mon Oct 31 12:09:16 CET 2011


Le lundi 31 octobre 2011 à 14:12 +0800, Funda Wang a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> After reading this:
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7
> 
> We will support mageia 2 for 18 months (May 2012 to Nov 2013). But
> upstream will end ruby 1.8.7 at the time of June 2013. That means, we
> won't have any support from upstream even for security issues from
> June 2013 to Nov 2013. Of course, if mageia 2 be delayed....
> 
> Should we update ruby into 1.9 so that we still have support from upstream?

Afaik, ruby 1.9 use a slightly different syntax than ruby 1.8 ( and of
course, that's slightly incompatible, which translate usually to
slightly lots of issues ).

I know that puppet just fixed some issue regarding ruby 1.9. I am not
sure the rest of the crowd is following.

-- 
Michael Scherer



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