[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.
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Michael Scherer
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