The following reply was made to PR ports/181663; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stanislav Sedov <[email protected]> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <[email protected]> Cc: FreeBSD PR followup <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ports/181663: [PATCH] lang/ruby18: mark DEPRECATED and set EXPIRATION_DATE Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:15:18 -0700 I am not sure it is a good idea at this point. A lot of commercial consumers of FreeBSD still use ruby 1.8 despite the fact it is EOL, and will use it for a while since some software is quite hard to migrate. I'm all for printing the EOL message, but my believe it is a bit premature to drop ruby 1.8 now or 6 months later. This might cause FreeBSD consumers to drop FreeBSD and move to Linux, which still defaults to 1.8 in it's majority, as far as I know. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ruby To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
