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Sean Busbey edited comment on AVRO-1559 at 1/8/19 5:30 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------- I agree for Avro 1.9.0+ we should bump to Ruby 2.3+. IIRC JRuby's current versions also support those ruby versions so we should be good. was (Author: busbey): I agree for 1.9.0+ we should bump to 2.3+. IIRC JRuby's current versions also support those ruby versions so we should be good. > Drop support for Ruby 1.8 > ------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-1559 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559 > Project: Apache Avro > Issue Type: Wish > Components: ruby > Affects Versions: 1.7.7 > Reporter: Willem van Bergen > Assignee: Willem van Bergen > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.9.0 > > Attachments: AVRO-1559.patch > > > - Ruby 1.8 is EOL, and is even security issues aren't addressed anymore. > - It is also getting hard to set up Ruby 1.8 to run the tests (e.g. on a > recent OSX, it won't compile without manual fiddling). > - Handling character encodings in Ruby 1.9 is very different than Ruby 1.8. > Supporting both at the same time adds a lot of overhead. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)