Out dated distributions aside… there is a catalog of serious problems in 1.8.6 from string handling, through thread scheduling, race conditions on trivial file system operations and more - it is effectively obsolete; and given it's age, and the catalog of problems I certainly won't go out of my way to support it here. In this instance the problem isn't related - but I've closed more than one ticket as there's been no evidence that they present on modern (even old) versions of Ruby. We're 3 months away from Matz starting work on Ruby 2.0 ( I spoke with him just last week ) – with him being most disappointed that people have failed completely to move towards 1.9… as it's something I believe very strongly in not using old software. (And, need I remind you of the last time Debian, for example http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1 - They revised their update policy in that are rather quickly following that discovery.
Ruby 1.8.7 has been available for about 2 years and one week, take a look at the announcement here… http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/05/31/ruby-1-8-7-has-been-released/ - two years and nobody updated a package for some operating systems yet… that is simply unreasonable. And Robin, I know we don't often agree - I'm not looking for a fight - and in fact I work in a rails shop where for a variety of reasons we still use 1.8.7 - with a great many back-ported and custom patches for one thing and another - with this in mind I feel that I am qualified to speak about managing software versions in an environment where such things are critical And @Jon – what I'm saying is - if it's not a problem and you have no reason not to… upgrading to 1.8.7 ( at least ) will make your life easier… hey throw the boat out and switch to 1.9.x - we've supported and encouraged it for a long time :) Anyway, back to the issue - take a look at the specific man pages for those tools on your OS (gnu and system versions can differ) and make sure the flags are set to copy hidden files, in the event that you don't set copy_exclude... or that you do - you should check whether the defaults make problems for you – the default is only to skip the .git directory - if present… take a look though Jon - Lee On 4 June 2010 12:18, Robin Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/06/10 11:02, Lee Hambley wrote: > > > Also, for the record you should be off 1.8.6 (not causing this problem) > > but it is more then 2/3 years old, and completely obsolete now…… > > Lee, > > That is an unrealistic suggestion. > > The latest release of RHEL (+ derivatives) has ruby 1.8.6, so many > people will be stuck with that version. > > R. > > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<capistrano%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > -- * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en
