----- 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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