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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:44:23 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
To:        Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@goodking.org>
Cc:        ruby@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Time to mark lang/ruby18 DEPRECATED
Message-ID:  <20130925144423.GI74496@admin.xzibition.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130923173906.GR95595@goodking.org>
References:  <20130923173906.GR95595@goodking.org>

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:39:06PM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> Good afternoon list!
>=20
> I set out this morning to do a big rmport on the ruby* ports that were
> marked as DECPREACTED[1], and started going down deeper and deeper into t=
he
> proverbial rabbit hole.
>=20
> Ruby 1.8.7 is no longer officially supported upstream as of the end of
> June, 2013[2]
>=20
> I would like to see 1.8.7 marked as DEPRECATED, sooner than later, so
> the balance of ports can either be given the attention they need to
> build with 1.9.x, or removed outright.  I propose setting the
> EXPIRATION_DATE=3D2013-11-01 so the remainder of the cleanup can be
> performed.
>=20
> I have already commenced altering some dates for the removal of the
> deprecated ports, to expire in unison with other removals [3] [4], and
> will work down the list of dependencies until I have silenced rmport
> enough to complete the job.
>=20
> Thanks for your time and attention to the matter.
>=20
>=20
> Thomas
>=20
> [1] http://www.freshports.org/ports-deprecated.php
> [2] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/
> [3] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/03019=
3.html
> [4] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/03019=
4.html

And more recent:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/30/we-retire-1-8-7/

>=20
> --=20
> Thomas Abthorpe		| FreeBSD Committer
> tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org	| http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe



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