Hi, Ruby 1.9.1 is supposed to be released in december 2007, and will be ruby's stable release.
There's a lot of things that should be discussed before that, and we don't have much time: - library installation paths (see #446220): a common complain heard about Debian's ruby is that we install all libs in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8, mixing stdlib and third party libs. It would be a good idea to move away from that in ruby1.9. - rubygems. ruby 1.9.1 will include rubygems in stdlib (it hasn't been imported yet, according to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This means that we will have to decide whether we continue to package libs from .tgz, or if we want to package some rubygems too. I had a long discussion with Eric Hodel (brbrain), and I think that we should package gems. But there's a number of issues that should be dealt with first: - when run 'normally', gem should not install to /usr/lib/ruby/gems, but to some place under /usr/local, to avoid clashes between debian packages and manually installed gems. - binaries from rubygem packages should be installed to /usr/bin, while binaries from manually installed gems should go to /usr/local. - rdoc documentation should be installed to /usr/share/doc - what about ri documentation ? - anything else? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
