Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:26:11 +0000 From: Eric <freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> To: "ruby@FreeBSD.org" <ruby@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: making Ruby 1.9 default Message-ID: <C9A8D5B3.1E0A5%freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> In-Reply-To: <4D8290A0.4010502@FreeBSD.org>
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>> [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. > > Steve Sounds like the issue I ran into last night whilst having an idle go yesterday, might try to have a proper bash at it over the weekend. That said however a superficial glance at ports/144605 and the portupgrade sources affected by it would seem to indicate that portupgrade is already fixed as per that PR (although not with that actual patch applied) and that PR is redundant. Eric
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