making Ruby 1.9 default

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:52:16 -0400
Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

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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.
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It does not work with 1.9.  I submitted some pacthes to fix it, but it's
not enough to get it build.  IIRC, there were some other problems knu@
mentioned.

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Stanislav Sedov
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