Ruby 1.9.3 testing repository

[Darryl L. Pierce]

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.

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