Time to mark lang/ruby18 DEPRECATED

[Bryan Drewery]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:39:06PM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> Good afternoon list!
> 
> I set out this morning to do a big rmport on the ruby* ports that were
> marked as DECPREACTED[1], and started going down deeper and deeper into the
> proverbial rabbit hole.
> 
> Ruby 1.8.7 is no longer officially supported upstream as of the end of
> June, 2013[2]
> 
> I would like to see 1.8.7 marked as DEPRECATED, sooner than later, so
> the balance of ports can either be given the attention they need to
> build with 1.9.x, or removed outright.  I propose setting the
> EXPIRATION_DATE=2013-11-01 so the remainder of the cleanup can be
> performed.
> 
> I have already commenced altering some dates for the removal of the
> deprecated ports, to expire in unison with other removals [3] [4], and
> will work down the list of dependencies until I have silenced rmport
> enough to complete the job.
> 
> Thanks for your time and attention to the matter.
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> [1] http://www.freshports.org/ports-deprecated.php
> [2] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/
> [3] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/030193.html
> [4] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-September/030194.html

And more recent:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/30/we-retire-1-8-7/

> 
> -- 
> Thomas Abthorpe		| FreeBSD Committer
> tabthorpe at FreeBSD.org	| http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe


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