Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:25:47 -0400 From: "Steve Wills" <swills@FreeBSD.org> To: lev@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, ruby@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Port deprecation reason ``Does not work with Ruby 1.9'' -- what should I do? Message-ID: <1b93155835be46218ed66046cb27e541.squirrel@mouf.net> In-Reply-To: <513E6F62.8010403@FreeBSD.org> References: <1666541502.20130312011345@serebryakov.spb.ru> <513E6F62.8010403@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 3/11/2013 4:13 PM, Lev Serebryakov wrote: >> Hello, Ports. >> >> My port (devel/ruby-subversion) is marked for deletion in 2 months >> because `` Does not work with Ruby 1.9''. What should I do? >> >> To be honest, I know nothing about Ruby and this port is part of >> official subversion distribution. Only thing I could do is to check >> that it builds and pass "make tests". >> >> Why port is marked for deletion? Is ruby 1.8 deprecated and removed? >> Why can't port be for ruby 1.8 only? > > I believe 1.8 is EOL in June. > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/ > > I can't find anything more recent confirming this though. Yep, that's correct as far as I know. >> >> Only tyhing I could do right now -- ask upstream is ruby 1.9 >> support planned for future releases, but I can not influence >> upstream to provide (or doesn't provide) such support and I cannot >> hack sources to make it support ruby 1.9 :( Just out of curiosity, I did a search and found this: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4083 So perhaps it's fixable. Steve
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