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Re: Dropping ruby-commandline, or declaring it 1.8-only?



Gunnar Wolf escreveu isso aí:
> Hi,
> 
> CommandLine::Application has a very nice API and used to work quite
> fine for me, but it is not 1.9.1-compatible (it even fails to fail -
> #676125, #676248). The last release was in 2005, and it does not exist
> in Gem form (which means, it's very unlikely Ruby people care about it
> at all).
> 
> I reimplemented dh-make-drupal to use OptionParser (which is in the
> Ruby standard library) in about an hour. ruby-commandline has still
> one reverse-dependency (via libcommandline-ruby1.8), dhelp.
> 
> Now, the question: Should we drop this package? Or should we build it
> for 1.8 only? Of course, keeping it runnable under 1.9.1 is just not a
> good idea (as it silently fails).

In your opinion, which one would require less effort?

- porting dhelp to use OptionParser
- porting ruby-commandline to 1.9

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

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