On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:39:06PM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > Good afternoon list! > > I set out this morning to do a big rmport on the ruby* ports that were > marked as DECPREACTED[1], and started going down deeper and deeper into the > proverbial rabbit hole. > > Ruby 1.8.7 is no longer officially supported upstream as of the end of > June, 2013[2] > > I would like to see 1.8.7 marked as DEPRECATED, sooner than later, so > the balance of ports can either be given the attention they need to > build with 1.9.x, or removed outright. I propose setting the > EXPIRATION_DATE=2013-11-01 so the remainder of the cleanup can be > performed. > > I have already commenced altering some dates for the removal of the > deprecated ports, to expire in unison with other removals [3] [4], and > will work down the list of dependencies until I have silenced rmport > enough to complete the job. > > Thanks for your time and attention to the matter. > > > Thomas > > [1] http://www.freshports.org/ports-deprecated.php > [2] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/ > [3] > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/030193.html > [4] > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/030194.html
And more recent: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/30/we-retire-1-8-7/ > > -- > Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer > [email protected] | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe
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