making Ruby 1.9 default

[Martin Wilke]

I'd like to say come up with patches, and let see how the result is. If it
works
i vote +1 to make it default.

- Martin

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Ruby 1.9.x has been the "current stable version" of Ruby (according to
> ruby-lang.org) since April 21, 2009 (at least according to my reading of
> the WebBack machine). It seems to me it would be really nice to get Ruby
> 1.9 as the default version by 9.0. Does that seem reasonable to everyone
> else? If so, I'd like to do some work towards making that happen. My
> current thoughts on what a plan would be are:
>
> * Build all ruby dependent ports - already in progress in my tinderbox
> * Identify ports which don't build with RUBY_VER == 1.9
> * Add the usual lines to prevent them from trying to build with RUBY_VER
> == 1.9:
>
>  .if ${RUBY_VER} == 1.9
>  BROKEN= does not work with ruby 1.9
>  .endif
>
> * Try to identify ports which don't build with 1.9 which may have an
> update available which will allow them to build with 1.9 and update
> those. I've already got some updates for the ruby-gnome stuff ready to
> commit.
>
> * From those that remain, determine if a fix is available or attempt to
> fix them.
>
> * From those that can't be fixed, determine if they are important enough
> to hold up switching the default. Some I've found have no home page,
> don't seem useful enough to keep in the tree or looks as though they are
> no longer maintained and will not get the changes needed to work with 1.9.
>
> * Request -exp run with RUBY_DEFAULT_VER?= 1.9 and perhaps repeat the
> process if anything surprising is found.
>
> Am I crazy? Barking up the wrong tree, etc? Any input would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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