Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:20:01 GMT From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: ruby@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/181663: [PATCH] lang/ruby18: mark DEPRECATED and set EXPIRATION_DATE Message-ID: <201308300020.r7U0K1rr063111@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/181663; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: FreeBSD PR followup <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports/181663: [PATCH] lang/ruby18: mark DEPRECATED and set EXPIRATION_DATE Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:15:18 -0700 I am not sure it is a good idea at this point. A lot of commercial consumers of FreeBSD still use ruby 1.8 despite the fact it is EOL, and will use it for a while since some software is quite hard to migrate. I'm all for printing the EOL message, but my believe it is a bit premature to drop ruby 1.8 now or 6 months later. This might cause FreeBSD consumers to drop FreeBSD and move to Linux, which still defaults to 1.8 in it's majority, as far as I know. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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