Re: supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-24 Thread Alex Vong
Pjotr Prins writes: > I think we can now drop the unsupported versions. I was using 1.8 > until quite recently ;). These packages can be put into channels for > those who need that. > Ok, so we can drop them for guix. But I think we should still try to fix as many CVEs as possible even if we

Re: supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > I think we can now drop the unsupported versions. I was using 1.8 > until quite recently ;). These packages can be put into channels for > those who need that. People can also resort to “inferior packages” if they want to mix software from the past with current software

Re: supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-23 Thread Pjotr Prins
I think we can now drop the unsupported versions. I was using 1.8 until quite recently ;). These packages can be put into channels for those who need that. Pj. On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:57:29AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Hello, > > I find out that ruby 1.8, 2.1 and 2.2 are all EOL. Do we still

supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-22 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I find out that ruby 1.8, 2.1 and 2.2 are all EOL. Do we still intend to support them (say because they are needed in web development)? If so, I think we should provide security updates. I have look into Debian LTS support[0]. For 1.8, the LTS support has gone as Debian old old stable[1]

Re: Ruby on Guix

2015-09-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:54:51PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Cyril Roelandt <tipec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/31/2015 12:06 AM, David Thompson wrote: > >> Hey fellow Guix hackers, > >> > >> I just published a blog p

Re: Ruby on Guix

2015-09-01 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 08/31/2015 12:06 AM, David Thompson wrote: > Hey fellow Guix hackers, > > I just published a blog post about Guix targetting Ruby programmers, > detailing the ways in which Guix can replace the not-so-good RVM and > Bundler tools. I know there's a few Rubyists lurking in he

Re: Ruby on Guix

2015-09-01 Thread Thompson, David
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Cyril Roelandt <tipec...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/31/2015 12:06 AM, David Thompson wrote: >> Hey fellow Guix hackers, >> >> I just published a blog post about Guix targetting Ruby programmers, >> detailing the ways in which Gui

Ruby on Guix

2015-08-30 Thread David Thompson
Hey fellow Guix hackers, I just published a blog post about Guix targetting Ruby programmers, detailing the ways in which Guix can replace the not-so-good RVM and Bundler tools. I know there's a few Rubyists lurking in here, so, enjoy! http://dthompson.us/ruby-on-guix.html -- David Thompson