FLAVORS for Ruby

[Koichiro Iwao]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:00:19AM +0200, Antoine Brodin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:45 AM Koichiro Iwao <meta at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to suggest introducing FLAVOR to Ruby ports.
> >
> > AFAIK multiple version of Ruby ports (lang/ruby??) can be installed at
> > the same time.  One of these ruby ports will be *default* installed as
> > PREFIX/bin/ruby. In contrast of Ruby lang, rubygem ports cannot be
> > installed for multiple Ruby version at the same time.
> >
> > I would say Ruby and rubygem ports needs FLAVORS like Python ports.
> > In Python ports, the same origin py- ports can be installed for multiple
> > versions such as py27, py35, py36. If the same thing can be done with
> > Ruby ports, FreeBSD Ruby ports will be much improved.
> >
> > I would appreciate if you Ruby folks bounce some ideas off each other.
> > Let me know if someone's already working on FLAVORS on Ruby. Is there
> > something that I can help you with?
> 
> Please no.  I don't see valid reasons.

Why? I don't see invalid reasons. Had Ruby FLAVORS already denied in the
past?  What's the difference between Rython and Ruby? py- ports can be
installed for py35 and py36 at the same time. Why not for Ruby?

I'm just brainstorming Ruby FLAVORS. Both positive opinions and negative
opinions are welcome.

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