FLAVORS for Ruby

[Antoine Brodin]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 6:27 AM Koichiro Iwao <meta at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:33:43AM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > Systems MUST be able to support concurrent installations of python2.7
> > and actual python. What is your use case for concurrent ruby?
>
> I know the importance of Python 2. Even if it is EoL-ed, it will be
> required over the next a few years because not a few applications don't
> migrate to Python 3. So that's true and reasonable.
>
> Excuse me that I'm answering your question with a question. What about
> PHP? Concurrent installation is a MUST?
>
> FreeBSD ports allows concurrent installations of multiple Ruby versions
> however doesn't allow concurrent installations of rubygems for multiple
> Ruby versions. This inconsistency is the issue for me.

This isn't a valid reason for me.
Why do you need ruby version 2.4 or 2.5 concurrently installed with version 2.6?
Is there a bug in version 2.6?

Cheers,

Antoine