Re: Two stage Ruby compilation / Bootstrapping

[Jun Aruga]

> With recent changes, such as [3], I am afraid that the day has come.

It seems that the day came on Ruby 2.7.0, right? Ruby 2.7.0 includes
the commit [3].
> Thoughts?
> On the positive side, 1(2) would allow us to stay better in line with
> "Pregenerated code" guidelines [5], because there is already quite a lot
> of pre-generated code shipped in Ruby release tarball.

For my first impression,, I agree with the way 1) and 2).
> Use previous version of Ruby available in Fedora to bootstrap Ruby.
>
> But this does not work ATM, at least when RubyGems are installed. And
> upstream is doing what they can to make RubyGems inseparable [4].

If we create the SRPM for "Use previous version of Ruby available in
Fedora to bootstrap Ruby", which name do you like?

The candidates:
* rpms/ruby-bootstrap
* rpms/bootstrap-ruby
* rpms/previous-ruby