Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:35:45 -0700 From: Patrick Gibson <gibblertron@gmail.com> To: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0 Message-ID: <CA%2BdWbmbAoNAO3QoUeoMfbHi2kzx63YM1QBccf7Wgckk0CzkyFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140908202221.GF67217@mouf.net> References: <CA%2BdWbmaPBTMz3MBjq3FjDCaXVOQGKAEM3nkEXKEuXEr7B8Whyg@mail.gmail.com> <20140906193632.GC67217@mouf.net> <20140908202221.GF67217@mouf.net>
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 07:36:35PM +0000, Steve Wills wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:04:18AM -0700, Patrick wrote: > > > Are there any plans to make Ruby 2.0 (or even 2.1) the default Ruby > version > > > for FreeBSD? Most every Ruby developer and company I know has moved > past > > > 1.9, and the 1.9 default in FreeBSD makes it impossible to use the > official > > > pkg sources because any pkg upgrade action wants to replace ruby20 with > > > ruby19. While it's probably best that each of us uses our own pkg > > > repository built with something like Poudriere, it's definitely not > very > > > convenient given how much work is involved in setting everything up > that's > > > needed to provided a pkg source. > > > > > > Going from 1.9 to 2.0 is a pretty painless update. > > > > Yes, it's something that I've been looking at. Exp-run build tests have > been > > done several times and I've been using 2.0 as default for packages I > build for > > myself for a while, so it's really all ready to go. > > > > There is one issue, which is the version of devel/ruby-gems. I've been > told by > > ruby gems developers that using gem 1.8.x with ruby 2.0 isn't really > supported > > or "sane", though I forget the details at this point. So I wanted to get > that > > updated before switching the default. Maybe we should just do it without > that, > > since I don't know of any specific issues or have details on potential > issues. > > > > Thoughts? > > The exp-run for making 2.0 default was done again, and only 2 issues came > up > and I fixed both of those. Further I haven't been able to find any issues > with > the current version of gem in ports, though that doesn't mean they don't > exist > of course. > > So, I'm thinking we should go ahead and set a date and do it. Anyone have > objections to doing it October 9, 2014? Or is a month too long to wait? > > Steve > My reasons are perhaps selfish, but I'd say the sooner, the better. :) I've been using lang/ruby20 for quite some time without any issues (save for pkg-ng wanting to downgrade to ruby19 all of the time). That said, October 9, 2014 isn't that far away, and it's not going to have a huge impact either way.
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