From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 02:27:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D991065672; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stef-list@memberwebs.com) Received: from mx.npubs.com (mail.zoneseven.net [209.66.100.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FD28FC1F; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stef-list@memberwebs.com) Received: from mx.npubs.com (avhost [209.66.100.194]) by mx.npubs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7FFEFB975; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from northstar-srv2 (unknown [172.27.2.11]) by mx.npubs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0812DEFB919; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Stef User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stanislav Sedov References: <20090212163002.302A8EFB919@mx.npubs.com> <20090212195932.dea33ddc.stas@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20090213022711.0812DEFB919@mx.npubs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the ruby 1.8.7 update incompatible with 1.8.6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stef@memberwebs.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:27:12 -0000 Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:30:03 +0000 (UTC) > Stef mentioned: >> Devs of the systems I maintain are saying that they can't use 1.8.7 due >> to incompatibilities with rails and other breakages, and now suddenly >> there's no version of 1.8.6 in ports. > >> I'm not ruby guy myself, but I do try to support it as best I can. >> Ruby's irresponsible versioning and breakage of their software makes my >> job painful, and I'm slowly developing a grudge against ruby :/ > >> However I've been very thankful for the modicum of sanity that FreeBSD >> ports brought to ruby versions. Is that now gone too? Tell me it isn't so. > > This version is belived to be fully compatible with ruby-1.8.6 line. At least, > it fully passes the rubyspec tests (http://www.rubyspec.org/, also see > "validate" target in Makefile), so there should be no problems. > > The main concern with ruby-1.8.7 was it's incompatibility with rails, and > some stability problems. All of them was resolved. Today, 1.8.7 is recommended > for rails, as noted on their site. That's great news. I'll work on building packages for devs to deploy to their test systems. As I said before, I much appreciate your bringing sanity to an otherwise confusing ruby versioning scheme. Thanks, Stef