----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <[email protected]> > To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:45:19 PM > Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.3 testing repository > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:30:39PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > >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. > > > > May be you should start to be worried about RHEL 7. > > I am looking to the future and especially to Ruby 1.9. :) > > > Honestly, if you are developing for current RHEL, then it is best > > to > > develop on RHEL. If you are developing for future RHEL, then it is > > best to develop on Rawhide. However, this is not discussion about > > RHEL but about Fedora. > > That's already the process. As I said, I'm just being conservative > about > the transition; i.e., the idea of "we're going to completely dump > LANG > vX for LANG vY with this release" (when there are incompatibilities > between X and Y) gives me chills. ;)
There is a remote possibility (and I put the stress on "remote") that a software collection with Ruby 1.8.7 and a subset of Rubygems will go into Fedora 17 (see [1] for information on software collections). However, maintaining software collections is a huge overhead and we should focus on the new stuff more - like getting newest versions into Rawhide and encourage everyone to use them (and actually use them ourselves). Ruby 1.8.7 will be reaching EOL in year and half [2] and only a half of year from that is normal maintenance, so it's time to move on. [1] http://baseos.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com/Stack/ISVDeveloperGuide [2] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/2094567 Regards, Bohuslav. > -- > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ruby-sig mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ruby-sig _______________________________________________ ruby-sig mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ruby-sig
