From owner-freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Fri Sep 13 13:14:19 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ruby@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72D9F1479 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46VGLg4wmpz4cVl for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id A5D70F1478; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ruby@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42A2F1476; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 +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 46VGLg3nNLz4cVj; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Received: from lrrr.mouf.net (cpe-174-109-174-192.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.174.192]) (authenticated bits=0) by mouf.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id x8DDE6Fu033822 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:12 GMT (envelope-from swills@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: FLAVORS for Ruby To: Koichiro Iwao , Antoine Brodin Cc: ports@freebsd.org, ruby@freebsd.org References: <20190913074519.xfu3avb4ihmfzm2o@icepick.vmeta.jp> <20190913090645.buutinhgh2pygb4h@icepick.vmeta.jp> From: Steve Wills Message-ID: <8922b3a9-e433-7a6e-e4e5-29f22fbbfb88@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:14:01 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190913090645.buutinhgh2pygb4h@icepick.vmeta.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mouf.net [199.48.129.64]); Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.5 tests=KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS 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 0.99.2 at mouf.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46VGLg3nNLz4cVj X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.992,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:14:19 -0000 Hi, On 9/13/19 5:06 AM, Koichiro Iwao wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:00:19AM +0200, Antoine Brodin wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:45 AM Koichiro Iwao wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to suggest introducing FLAVOR to Ruby ports. >>> >>> AFAIK multiple version of Ruby ports (lang/ruby??) can be installed at >>> the same time. One of these ruby ports will be *default* installed as >>> PREFIX/bin/ruby. In contrast of Ruby lang, rubygem ports cannot be >>> installed for multiple Ruby version at the same time. >>> >>> I would say Ruby and rubygem ports needs FLAVORS like Python ports. >>> In Python ports, the same origin py- ports can be installed for multiple >>> versions such as py27, py35, py36. If the same thing can be done with >>> Ruby ports, FreeBSD Ruby ports will be much improved. >>> >>> I would appreciate if you Ruby folks bounce some ideas off each other. >>> Let me know if someone's already working on FLAVORS on Ruby. Is there >>> something that I can help you with? >> >> Please no. I don't see valid reasons. > > Why? I don't see invalid reasons. Had Ruby FLAVORS already denied in the > past? What's the difference between Rython and Ruby? py- ports can be > installed for py35 and py36 at the same time. Why not for Ruby? > > I'm just brainstorming Ruby FLAVORS. Both positive opinions and negative > opinions are welcome. > We provide multiple versions of Ruby, it would make sense to provide gems for each version. In fact, I worked on this but never finished it: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13333 Steve