Re: Ruby packaging in wheezy: gem2deb, new policy, etc.
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Ohai!
On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> The default ruby version should still be 1.8 at least for some time,
>> given that most libraries are not supporting 1.9 yet.
>
> Hmm... given that we would probably target now+2yr for Wheezy, and
> given that Ruby devs are already talking about 1.9 as the stable
> branch (with 1.8 as the maintenance branch), maybe we should think
> about moving to default 1.9. Packages would still be built for 1.8,
> but this would encourage us to push any incompatibilities to be fixed
> (at or in colaboration with the upstream authors).
The current stable release of Ruby itself is 1.9(.2) - that should absolutely be the minimum supported version of Ruby on Debian. I hypothesize that one of the reasons that library developers have not moved forward with 1.9 support is because the two most popular distribution families are not shipping 1.9.x by default (Debian and Red Hat + derivatives, clearly).
As an upstream, Opscode does work to make sure that Chef and other related libraries we support work on both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. At some point we may support other interpreters, as well.
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