From owner-freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Mon Jan 25 12:01:57 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 2987CA45C27 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) 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 194EEAC8 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 18579A45C26; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:57 +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 17F0EA45C25 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from toco-domains.de (mail.toco-domains.de [176.9.39.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5704AC7; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (mail.toco-domains.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:150:50a5::6]) by toco-domains.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6ED3A1B2209F; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:01:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Obsoleting Rails 3.x? To: Steve Wills , ruby@freebsd.org References: <56A08842.8090105@toco-domains.de> <56A10C9A.3090604@FreeBSD.org> <56A20126.9040901@toco-domains.de> From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff Message-ID: <56A60EAB.9080205@toco-domains.de> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:01:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A20126.9040901@toco-domains.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:01:57 -0000 On 22.01.2016 11:15, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: > On 21.01.2016 17:51, Steve Wills wrote: > >>> 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. > > Fine! :) I will start next week! Okay, i did start, but with another step. First i set all Rails 4.1 ports deprecated. I introduced them just for the GitLab port, which no longer needs them: https://github.com/t-zuehlsdorff/freebsd-ports/tree/remove_rails41 I will create review and PR soon. First i need to take care about another PR. Greetings, Torsten