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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:17:15 -0700
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ruby@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: making Ruby 1.9 default
Message-ID:  <20110317201715.3bbd1772.stas@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D8290A0.4010502@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <C9A64EB6.1DFF2%freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> <4D8290A0.4010502@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:52:16 -0400
Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

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> On 03/16/11 07:25, Eric wrote:
> >> From: paranormal <akabsd@yandex.ru>
> > [SNIP]
> >> This is good idea. But beautiful port portupgrade :),
> >> not work with 1.9 version.
> > 
> > What about ports/144605 - "[PATCH] Get ports-mgmt/portupgrade to build under
> > Ruby 1.9.1"
> > 
> > I've not tried it, but does that patch do what it says on the tin?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There are plenty of outstanding PRs regarding portupgrade, which does seem
> > to suffer from being both loved and unloved (in terms of maintenance).  I
> > personally use it, but am wondering if it's time to switch to Doug's
> > PortMaster now... However given that portupgrade is often noted in
> > documentation as almost the default tool for doing upgrades of ports then it
> > does seem sensible that we should all try our best to fix it.
> > 
> > I personally think we should still aim to get to the default of 1.9 and
> > aiming for the 9.0 release seems a sensible target to go for, if part of
> > that process would seem to be getting portupgrade sorted then so be it.
> 
> Portupgrade is a bit of a problem. Perhaps it's due to my patches, but
> at the moment I can't get databases/ruby-bdb to build with RUBY_VER ==
> 1.9. If I could get past that, I could test the above PR. I wonder if
> anyone else has the same issue.
> 

It does not work with 1.9.  I submitted some pacthes to fix it, but it's
not enough to get it build.  IIRC, there were some other problems knu@
mentioned.

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Stanislav Sedov
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