Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:34:58 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: pav@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [BOO!] Ruby 1.8.4 testers wanted Message-ID: <op.s3abkky69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:48:22 -0600, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Hi people, > > Alexander Wittig provided us with patches to upgrade our Ruby to 1.8.4. > > Because previous attempt to upgrade to 1.8.3 ended in flames, I want > you, people who run ruby apps, to test the patches before I commit them. > Find the patches at > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/ruby/ Wish, you could have put all patches into a patch by together for one of us can patch in /usr/ports quickly. ;-) Anyway.... > Please test them as much as possible. I am installing those ruby stuff right now to test on ruby-gnome2-all > If I don't hear any screaming, they'll hit the tree during weekend. > > In 1.8.4, there is a different behaviour of site-install target from > mkmf generated Makefiles. Most obvious change is that .h files are no > longer installed in modules. I hacked mkmf.rb to include install; target > in site-install: target as it was in 1.8.2. Any Ruby wizard to tell me > how to fix this properly? Uh-oh, I don't really know but hopeful it won't break on any of ruby-gnome2-all build. If it does, then I will trying to work on fix the build. > I'm interested in which ports broke with 1.8.3 back last fall, so I > could check them out before committing? Anyone still remember? Kris? I think it was ruby, oniguruma, FXRuby apps and rubygem-rails. The 1.8.3 made some changes that many apps don't like, so it's supposed to be fixed in 1.8.4. http://www.rubyonrails.org/down =================================== We recommend Ruby 1.8.4 for use with Rails. Ruby 1.8.2 is fine too, but version 1.8.3 is not. =================================== > Once this is done, I'd like to start phasing out ruby16. Anyone > disagree? Agree, kill it. Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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