Ken Dreyer writes: > Hi folks, > > Thanks Thomas for pushing the version restriction in > a5e43643f1a4c871e440b6734e753ccfe374a3a8. This allows me to at least > run "bundle install" on CentOS 6 again. Unfortunately the gem was > subsequently used in a couple of other commits that recently went into > next, so the test suite still fails to run on 1.8.7. Would the > following patch be acceptable to you guys? [1]
Thanks, I'm merging this now. > I realize that Ruby 1.8.7 is ancient in the Ruby community, so I can > definitely understand that Gitorious won't support it forever. > > Speaking with my packager hat on, for EPEL 6, if Gitorious were to > have a hard dependency on a newer Ruby than the one that Red Hat > ships, EPEL would need to ship that Ruby in an alternate "ruby193" > package. We'd also need to ship alternate versions of any binary gems > (eg mysql2). One of the Fedora guys has actually done much of this > work already in a side repo[2], so I could probably build on that, but > it would be a third-party repository thing, and it would probably > never make it officially into EPEL-6. > > When Gitorious eventually requires Ruby 1.9 or later (via Rails 4 or > anything else), I am hoping that RHEL 7 will have shipped by then, so > I can shift my work to that. It should have Ruby 1.9.3 at a minimum. > At that point I won't care about Ruby 1.8.7 because I'll be moving to > CentOS 7 as fast as I can. Thanks for the insight! > In the mean time, I'm really hoping that you'll please consider > keeping 1.8.7 support where possible for Gitorious 3.0: > - better_errors is just a leaf package (for now) > - RHEL 7 should be out "soon" (Red Hat has claimed to release betas at > the end 2013) > - Gitorious 3 is so close to release :) > > Again, I understand this will involve more work in the long run, so > I'm hoping that I can pitch in when I have time. The new Jenkins setup > makes it easier for me to watch for this stuff too. No problem, we'll keep supporting 1.8.7 - at least in 3.0. And again: thanks for your hard work, it's much appreciated. Cheers, - Marius -- -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
