On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Paul Berry wrote:
>> Puppet is officially only supported on Ruby versions 1.8.2 and later (see
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What+Is+The+Minimum+Version+of+Ruby?).
> 
> I've thought that RHEL-4 was a supported platform, and it ships with
> ruby-1.8.1.  Is that not correct any longer?  (The FAQ history doesn't
> really shed any light here, as 1.8.2 is there from the first revision,
> but I believe that's only because of the conversion from Trac to
> Redmine.)

I don't remember what our final answer was on this one is, actually.  I know 
we've got paid support customers using RHEL 4, and I think in essentially all 
cases we've convinced them to upgrade ruby rather than stick with 1.8.1.

In the end, I think Red Hat's version of 1.8.1 in RHEL 4 will always work, but 
when it doesn't, we can't really do much about it.  I might be willing to go so 
far as to say Puppet officially supports 1.8.1 on RHEL, but I'm not willing to 
say it generally.

I don't actually know if that's an official position, though, weirdly.

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