From owner-freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Thu Jan 21 16:52:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ruby@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C65A8C940 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E5C1CCC for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 60666A8C93F; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ruby@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFE3A8C93E for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mouf.net (mouf.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:0:4400:216:3eff:fe69:33b3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mouf.net", Issuer "mouf.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FFBF1CC9 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [149.173.28.82] (rabbot.byod.sas.com [149.173.28.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by mouf.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u0LGphp2014721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:51:58 GMT (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: Obsoleting Rails 3.x? To: =?UTF-8?Q?Torsten_Z=c3=bchlsdorff?= , ruby@freebsd.org References: <56A08842.8090105@toco-domains.de> From: Steve Wills Message-ID: <56A10C9A.3090604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:51:38 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A08842.8090105@toco-domains.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mouf.net [199.48.129.64]); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.5 tests=none autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on mouf.net X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99 at mouf.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:52:05 -0000 On 01/21/16 02:26 AM, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote: > Hello, > > while working on many ports i figured out there are a bunch of > dependencies to our Rails 3 port. But for many rubygems this is not > needed - they already work with Rails 4.2. Often this results in a port > based on Rails 3 and a slave port with Rails 4.2. > This will become even more bad because Rails 5 is already on its way. > > Also when i'm understanding the release notices correct (i found them > quite confusing) they state: > - Rails 3.2 will only fix really bad security issues (while letting > "normal" security issues intact) > - you seem to get the fixes just if you pay > > So i would announce, that we go through the gems and do a little > cleanup. If a gem will work with Rails 4.2 we should switch its > dependency to this version instead of Rails 3. > > Your thoughts? Objections? > Sounds good, let's do it. Steve