The Ruby World Domination Plan

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:58 -0600, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:39 PM, David Lutterkort <lutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Reviving an old discussion.
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 00:32 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> >> - ruby-1.8.5 as shipped in EL-5
> >> - ruby-1.8.6 as shipped in Fedora currently, and most likely also EL-6
> >> - ruby-1.9.1 as targeted for Fedora 13
> >
> > I don't take it as a given that we need to support two parallel stacks,
> > since that leads to major gyrations. Do we have any idea how much
> > breakage there is on a 1.9.x stack ?
> 
> I still think puppet has issues with 1.9.  As far as I am concerned,
> that's a show stopper for moving ruby to 1.9 and not having 1.8.

Yes, definitely.

> I tried puppet on 1.9 last week with some issues :(

Did you file bugs upstream for that ?

The way I see it, the migration pain is inevitable; we can either go
through it now, lend upstream a hand, and save ourselves a compat stack,
or do it piecemeal with a mess of packages that work on 1.9 and on 1.8
selectively.

David