Status of migration to ruby 1.9 as default

[Steve Wills]

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On 07/06/11 22:39, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:28:00 -0400
> Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
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>> Hi,
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>> In case anyone is interested, here's where we are with migrating to Ruby
>> 1.9 as the default version:
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> Thanks for a nice summary.  Seems like a lot of work has been done.
> 
> So when do you want to make the switch?  I'm still not sure it's the
> right time to do it as part of 9.0 release cycle, as it seems that some
> of the important ports are broken and people still using 1.8 for production
> (myself included).

IMHO, the sooner the better. There will be some fallout, but at the
moment, the rdoc port is broken and thus railties and rails as well.

> WRT rdoc -- is there really a way to make ruby19 not install rdoc?  My
> impression was that rdoc now is part of ruby and this is the way to go...

I'm working on that and I'm not 100% sure yet, but we did it for rake
and gem, unless I'm misremembering, so I expect it to be possible.

Steve
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