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.
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