making Ruby 1.9 default

[Steve Wills]

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On 03/16/11 07:25, Eric wrote:
>> From: paranormal <akabsd at yandex.ru>
> [SNIP]
>> This is good idea. But beautiful port portupgrade :),
>> not work with 1.9 version.
> 
> What about ports/144605 - "[PATCH] Get ports-mgmt/portupgrade to build under
> Ruby 1.9.1"
> 
> I've not tried it, but does that patch do what it says on the tin?

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> 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 personally think we should still aim to get to the default of 1.9 and
> aiming for the 9.0 release seems a sensible target to go for, if part of
> that process would seem to be getting portupgrade sorted then so be it.

Portupgrade is a bit of a problem. Perhaps it's due to my patches, but
at the moment I can't get databases/ruby-bdb to build with RUBY_VER ==
1.9. If I could get past that, I could test the above PR. I wonder if
anyone else has the same issue.

Steve
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