----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <dpierce(a)redhat.com>
To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <ruby-sig(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
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.
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