FLAVORS for Ruby

[Antoine Brodin]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:45 AM Koichiro Iwao <meta at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest introducing FLAVOR to Ruby ports.
>
> AFAIK multiple version of Ruby ports (lang/ruby??) can be installed at
> the same time.  One of these ruby ports will be *default* installed as
> PREFIX/bin/ruby. In contrast of Ruby lang, rubygem ports cannot be
> installed for multiple Ruby version at the same time.
>
> I would say Ruby and rubygem ports needs FLAVORS like Python ports.
> In Python ports, the same origin py- ports can be installed for multiple
> versions such as py27, py35, py36. If the same thing can be done with
> Ruby ports, FreeBSD Ruby ports will be much improved.
>
> I would appreciate if you Ruby folks bounce some ideas off each other.
> Let me know if someone's already working on FLAVORS on Ruby. Is there
> something that I can help you with?

Please no.  I don't see valid reasons.

Antoine