Status of migration to ruby 1.9 as default

[Steve Wills]

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Hi,

In case anyone is interested, here's where we are with migrating to Ruby
1.9 as the default version:

* Good progress has been made on marking the incompatible ports and we
have deprecated a good number of them. The remaining incompatible ports
will be deprecated if no one steps up to fix them. A few PRs are
outstanding to mark the ports that are incompatible with 1.9 that aren't
maintained by ruby@

* A few ports which didn't work with 1.9 but have newer versions which
do have been found, and work has been done to update them. There are
also some where creating a new port that was rubygem- instead of ruby-
prefix seemed the right path. That has been done and work is in progress
to migrate the ports that depend on the older versions.

* I have to track down an issue with my patch (for making 1.9 the
default) and the versioned link for gem.

* After some discussion, it seems like not using the rdoc bundled with
Ruby makes sense. Managing the devel/rubygem-rdoc port separately will
be easier and allow updating separately. I just need to change my patch
to make sure the lang/ruby19 port doesn't install rdoc. This will also
be nice because the rdoc port that exists now doesn't work with ruby 1.8.

* There are some remaining ports that I just can't figure out, such as
audio/amarok-kde4 and editors/koffice-kde3 so I'll have to research
those more.

* I have a few patches for portupgrade that make it functional but not
perfect with 1.9. There's work to do there.

So, overall, great progress has been made and we're in good shape. Not
sure if we'll make it for 9.0, but I hope so.

If you'd like to test my patch, it's available here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~swills/ruby19_and_gems_changes5.diff

If you'd like to try to fix things, the possibly incomplete and/or
inaccurate list of ports that don't work with 1.9 is:

archivers/ruby-bz2
audio/ruby-musicbrainz
audio/ruby-shout
audio/ruby-vorbisfile
audio/ruby-xmms
comms/ruby-serialport
databases/ruby-bdb1
databases/ruby-interbase
databases/ruby-postgres
databases/ruby-search-namazu
databases/ruby-sqlite
databases/rubygem-kirbybase
databases/rubygem-postgres
devel/ruby-eet
devel/ruby-fam
devel/ruby-filelock
devel/ruby-filemagic
devel/ruby-gettext
devel/ruby-gnustep
devel/ruby-io-reactor
devel/ruby-jttui
devel/ruby-metaruby
devel/ruby-mmap
devel/ruby-poll
devel/ruby-rcov
devel/ruby-rrb
devel/ruby-rudl
devel/ruby-slang
devel/ruby-strongtyping
devel/ruby-sysvipc
devel/ruby-textbuf
devel/rubygem-linecache
devel/rubygem-ncurses
devel/rubygem-rparsec
devel/rubygem-sdl
devel/rubygem-zoom
games/ruby-exmars
graphics/ruby-gd
graphics/ruby-graph
graphics/ruby-libpng
graphics/ruby-ming
graphics/ruby-opengl
graphics/ruby-pgplot
graphics/rubygem-objectdetect
graphics/rubygem-turing
irc/xchat-ruby
japanese/mobileimap
japanese/ruby-chasen
japanese/ruby-eb
japanese/ruby-kakasi
japanese/ruby-ming
lang/ruby-extensions
lang/ruby-lua
lang/ruby-lua4
lang/ruby-perl
mail/ruby-tmail
math/ruby-bitset
math/ruby-bitvector
math/ruby-gmp
misc/rubygem-ohcount
multimedia/ruby-flvtool2
net-im/rubygem-termtter
net-im/rubygem-xmpp4r
net/ruby-mpi
net/ruby-nis
net/ruby-pcap
net/ruby-romp
net/ruby-spread
print/ruby-pdflib
security/ruby-acl
security/ruby-aes
security/ruby-blowfish
security/ruby-cast_256
security/ruby-mcrypt
security/ruby-pam
security/ruby-tcpwrap
sysutils/ruby-log4r
textproc/ruby-amrita
textproc/ruby-csv
textproc/ruby-erbscan
textproc/ruby-formvalidator
textproc/ruby-gdome
textproc/ruby-htmltools
textproc/ruby-nqxml
textproc/ruby-quixml
textproc/ruby-raspell
textproc/ruby-rd-mode.el
textproc/ruby-sablot
textproc/ruby-tempura
textproc/ruby-xmlscan-old
textproc/ruby-xslt
textproc/ruby-xtemplate
textproc/rubygem-ferret
textproc/rubygem-formosa
textproc/rubygem-htmltools
www/mod_ruby
www/ruby-http-access
www/ruby-nora
www/ruby-tmpl
www/rubygem-mongrel
x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk
x11-toolkits/ruby-tk
x11-toolkits/ruby-wx
x11/ruby-gtktrayicon

Steve
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