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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/181663: [PATCH] lang/ruby18: mark DEPRECATED and set
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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
 
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