On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:06:23PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > >I was thinking that, similarly to how Python 2.6 and 2.7 were handled, > >we could have a compatibility RPM for people who depend on 1.8, such as > >myself for my downstream projects. > > May be you should provide more details for what reason you cannot > use Ruby 1.9.3 to help me understand. And believe me, we went > through more than 320 packages in Fedora to make sure they are at > least buildable with Ruby 1.9.3, if they had properly executed test > suited, there is also high chance that these packages will work. > There is less then 15 packages from the total amount which are still > troubling us but these packages are typically obsolete anyway (take > sdljava as an example).
I'm just being conservative about it. Since there's so much that's changed from 1.8 to 1.9 I'd like to see a transition period where both are available before the older is completely phased out. My main downstream project is based on 1.8 (since that's what's in RHEL and will be for a while) so I'd like to see at least two releases with 1.8 to give me time to transition my work to 1.9 completely. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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