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.