ports/138100: [Update]databases/ruby-dbi:update to 0.4.2

[Stanislav Sedov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/138100; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stanislav Sedov <stas at FreeBSD.org>
To: wen heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/138100: [Update]databases/ruby-dbi:update to 0.4.2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:51:00 +0400

 On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:14:02 +0800
 wen heping <wenheping at gmail.com> mentioned:
 
 > Hi, stas@ :
 > 
 >    With its previous Makefile and Makefile.common, ruby-dbi and
 > other ruby-dbd_*  is some dificult to update. And in my plan, I shall update
 > all the ruby-dbd_* ports which require ruby-dbi to the newest version
 > and use gem and modify the depends.
 > 
 >    I do not know which one is welcomed more for ruby port: gem
 >  or not gem. If not gem, I will try to update it without gem and then
 > submit the new patch and close this PR.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > wen
 > 
 > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi Wen!
 > >
 > > Thanks for your patch!  Personally, I'd prefer to stay back
 > > from switching to gem version as I don't see much benefit
 > > for this step.  Why have you decided to switch to gem?
 > > Besides introducing new dependency on the old gem version,
 > > this will also possible break application that people use
 > > as this will require changes to this application sorce code
 > > to function properly with gems (require gems).
 > >
 > > Can you please, submit the patch against the current version
 > > without changing it to using gems?
 > >
 
 Yeah, I think that staying away from gems for this module is the
 preferrable way to go.  You may submit the new patch to update
 ruby-dbd* ports as followup to this PR.
 
 Thanks!
 
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 Stanislav Sedov
 ST4096-RIPE