making Ruby 1.9 default

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:00:48 -0700
milki <milki at rescomp.berkeley.edu> mentioned:

> On 11:25 Wed 16 Mar     , Eric wrote:
> > There are plenty of outstanding PRs regarding portupgrade, which does seem
> > to suffer from being both loved and unloved (in terms of maintenance).  I
> > personally use it, but am wondering if it's time to switch to Doug's
> > PortMaster now... However given that portupgrade is often noted in
> > documentation as almost the default tool for doing upgrades of ports then it
> > does seem sensible that we should all try our best to fix it.
> 
> I've been hanging out at #bsdports at efnet and I've gathered that is the
> consensus of committers that portupgrade is no longer maintained and
> portmaster is the preferred tool. The docs need some patching to reflect
> this.
> 

It's not true, it's officially maintained by ruby@, which for portupgrade
was effectively mainly me for the past years.  Unfortunately, I don't have
enough resources to make significant changes there.

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Stanislav Sedov
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