Ruby bsd.default-versions.mk DEFAULT_VERSION

[Steve Wills]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:23:05PM -0300, Santiago Pastorino wrote:
> Hey,
> 
>   just out of curiosity I wonder why is 2.1 the current default
> version. I know that I can change the version by editing
> /etc/make.conf but just wondering if you already know of some pain
> points of going to 2.2 by default or why that's the current decision.
> I'm moving my machine to 2.2 and testing but I tend to think that it
> shouldn't be a major pain.

There are still a number of ports that don't build or work with 2.2. I'd have
to test again to give you exact numbers, but it was more than a handfull of
rubygem- and ruby- ports that didn't build. Also, sysutils/puppet, which is
quite important to many users, doesn't support Ruby 2.2 yet (puppet 4.0 will).
Breaking puppet by default would be far from ideal.

Switching to 2.2 as default locally and testing is encouraged. :)

Steve