Ruby 1.9 as default

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:32:53PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote:
> 
> I think we should try to make Ruby 1.9 the default Ruby again and would
> like to see it done before 9.1 is released. I've submitted a patch which
> does this and requested and exp-run from portmgr.
> 
> I would like to get feedback on this idea. If you have experience with
> Ruby 1.9 as default, good or bad, please speak up. You can test this by
> setting RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 in /etc/make.conf or editing Mk/bsd.ruby.mk
> and setting the same variable there.

More specifically, I'd like a switch to 1.9.3+ as default.  I hope the
end result will not be <= 1.9.2, for a number of reasons, including the
fact that 1.9.3 is when Ruby started using a copyfree license (the
Simplified BSD License, or 2-clause BSD License) instead of the previous
copyleft license (the GPL).

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