ruby port downgrade

[Steve Wills]

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On 08/25/11 06:43, Jerry wrote:
> I probably missed it, but according to the "20110823:" entry in
> UPDATING, the ruby port was downgraded to 1.8. My first question is
> why?

Only which version is installed by default is changed back. There are
ports for both 1.8 and 1.9.

> Second, when checking on which version I have installed, this is
> the output:
> 
> ruby --version
> ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [amd64-freebsd8]
> 
> I therefore assume that I only have version 1.9 installed. Is that
> correct?

Not necessarily, you may have ruby 1.8 installed also.

> Third, is there really any reason to go though all that bullshit to
> downgrade to the previous version? I have not seen any problems
> occurring on my system.
> 

That's fine, you can keep that, just add RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 to
/etc/make.conf. The more people we have testing 1.9 the better!

Steve
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