Ruby bsd.default-versions.mk DEFAULT_VERSION

[Santiago Pastorino]

Good to know, thanks for the information :).

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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