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Tim Perkins commented on AVRO-1559:
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Is it worth revisiting the question of supported Ruby versions for a Avro 1.9.0
release?
At the time I'm writing this comment, Ruby 2.2 and earlier are no longer
maintained.
I'm in favor of only supporting Ruby 2.3 (released 2015-12-25) and later, and
explicitly testing against all the supported Ruby versions in the build.
It seems unlikely to me that somebody would be willing to accept a major Avro
update while being unwilling to update Ruby.
> Drop support for Ruby 1.8
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> Key: AVRO-1559
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: ruby
> Affects Versions: 1.7.7
> Reporter: Willem van Bergen
> Assignee: Willem van Bergen
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-1559.patch
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> - Ruby 1.8 is EOL, and is even security issues aren't addressed anymore.
> - It is also getting hard to set up Ruby 1.8 to run the tests (e.g. on a
> recent OSX, it won't compile without manual fiddling).
> - Handling character encodings in Ruby 1.9 is very different than Ruby 1.8.
> Supporting both at the same time adds a lot of overhead.
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