Ruby 1.9.3 testing repository

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 19.12.2011 17:18, Darryl L. Pierce napsal(a):
> 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.
>
>

May be you should start to be worried about RHEL 7.

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.


Vit