[BOO!] Ruby 1.8.4 testers wanted

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:48:22 -0600, Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Alexander Wittig provided us with patches to upgrade our Ruby to 1.8.4.
>
> Because previous attempt to upgrade to 1.8.3 ended in flames, I want
> you, people who run ruby apps, to test the patches before I commit them.
> Find the patches at
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/ruby/

Wish, you could have put all patches into a patch by together for one of  
us can patch in /usr/ports quickly. ;-) Anyway....

> Please test them as much as possible.

I am installing those ruby stuff right now to test on ruby-gnome2-all

> If I don't hear any screaming, they'll hit the tree during weekend.
>
> In 1.8.4, there is a different behaviour of site-install target from
> mkmf generated Makefiles. Most obvious change is that .h files are no
> longer installed in modules. I hacked mkmf.rb to include install; target
> in site-install: target as it was in 1.8.2. Any Ruby wizard to tell me
> how to fix this properly?

Uh-oh, I don't really know but hopeful it won't break on any of  
ruby-gnome2-all build. If it does, then I will trying to work on fix the  
build.

> I'm interested in which ports broke with 1.8.3 back last fall, so I
> could check them out before committing? Anyone still remember? Kris?

I think it was ruby, oniguruma, FXRuby apps and rubygem-rails. The 1.8.3  
made some changes that many apps don't like, so it's supposed to be fixed  
in 1.8.4.

http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
===================================
We recommend Ruby 1.8.4 for use with Rails. Ruby 1.8.2 is fine too, but  
version 1.8.3 is not.
===================================

> Once this is done, I'd like to start phasing out ruby16. Anyone
> disagree?

Agree, kill it.

Cheers,
Mezz


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