Re: Ruby 1.9.3 testing repository

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 19.12.2011 16:26, Darryl L. Pierce napsal(a):
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:33:53AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > > > what fedora version are you targeting this for and are you going
> > > >
> > > > to file a feature?
> > >
> > > We are targeting Fedora 17. I have already prepared the draft of
> > > feature proposal [1] and I'd like to submit it to FESCo aproval
> > > before Christmas.
> > How will Ruby 1.8 be handled? Will we keep a ruby-1.8 package around?
>
> No, sorry, I don't plan it. There is no reason except nostalgia. You
> can use JRuby if you really need.

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.