Re: Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Bloom
Steffem Joeris wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:10:12 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2 versions of jruby available ? I guess so you can at least, for instance, try the new

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 07/04/09 at 23:44 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Sebastien Delafond dijo [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:59:00PM -0700]: On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2 versions of jruby available ? I guess so

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-08 Thread Steffen Joeris
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:10:12 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2 versions of jruby available

Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond s...@debian.org * Package name: jruby1.2 Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : The JRuby Team * URL : http://jruby.codehaus.org/ * License : tri-license CPL/GPL/LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond s...@debian.org * Package name: jruby1.2 Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : The JRuby Team * URL : http://jruby.codehaus.org/ *

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: Why do we need jruby1.0, jruby1.1 and now jruby1.2 ? so multiple versions of jruby can be simultaneously installed on a system, like with python2.x, ruby1.x, etc ? Cheers, --Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Sebastien Delafond (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:08:17 -0700): On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: Why do we need jruby1.0, jruby1.1 and now jruby1.2 ? so multiple versions of jruby can be simultaneously installed on a system, like with python2.x, ruby1.x, etc ? The question was, rather: why would a

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:08:17PM -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote: On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: Why do we need jruby1.0, jruby1.1 and now jruby1.2 ? so multiple versions of jruby can be simultaneously installed on a system, like with python2.x, ruby1.x, etc ? While I see why it can be

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On Apr/07, Adeodato Simó wrote: The question was, rather: why would a user want to install jruby1.0 or jruby1.1 instead of jruby1.2? What purpose does it serve having three different versions in the archive instead of one, or two at most? jruby1.0 will indeed be removed shortly from the

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:40:54PM -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote: On Apr/07, Adeodato Simó wrote: The question was, rather: why would a user want to install jruby1.0 or jruby1.1 instead of jruby1.2? What purpose does it serve having three different versions in the archive instead of one,

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2 versions of jruby available ? I guess so you can at least, for instance, try the new one on your existing jruby code without removing the old one, for instance ?

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: But why a need for two versions at a time ? AFAICS, jruby 1.2 supports both ruby 1.8 *and* 1.9, as jruby 1.1 does, so why would jruby 1.1 still be needed ? As I said in my other mail, for transition reasons; backward-compatibility is something many people like to

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:17:09PM -0700, Sebastien Delafond wrote: On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: But why a need for two versions at a time ? AFAICS, jruby 1.2 supports both ruby 1.8 *and* 1.9, as jruby 1.1 does, so why would jruby 1.1 still be needed ? As I said in my other mail, for

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sebastien Delafond dijo [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:59:00PM -0700]: On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is important for jruby... to have 2 versions of jruby available ? I guess so you can at least, for instance, try the new one on

Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Sebastien Delafond dijo [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:17:09PM -0700]: On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: But why a need for two versions at a time ? AFAICS, jruby 1.2 supports both ruby 1.8 *and* 1.9, as jruby 1.1 does, so why would jruby 1.1 still be needed ? As I said in my other mail, for