FLAVORS for Ruby

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On 9/13/19 5:06 AM, Koichiro Iwao wrote:
> 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.
> 

We provide multiple versions of Ruby, it would make sense to provide 
gems for each version. In fact, I worked on this but never finished it:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13333

Steve