Re: pkg/39890

["Michal Suchanek" <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost>]

2008/11/28 Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/39890; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: pkg/39890
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:07:21 +0900 (JST)
>
>  In message 
> <a5d587fb0811241707y68b33a2of406738a3141e00e%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
>        on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:07:39 +0100,
>        "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost> wrote:
>  > >  Code written for 1.8.6 have a much higher chance to fail once 1.9 is 
> out.
>  > >  With 1.8.7 you get warnings what you should avoid to get it working with
>  > >  1.9.
>  >
>  > 1.9 is out.
>  Yes, it as snapshot release and still in development status version.
>
>  > >  >  > and "the ML discussions"?
>  > >  >  ruby-talk
>  > >
>  > >  Provide a pointer to a URL with a statement from a ruby developer.
>  >
>  > What kind of ruby developer? Core ruby developers work on 1.9. There
>  > is a designated 1.8 maintainer, and a person who wrote 1.8.7.
>  You said:
>
>  : On some platfroms ruby 1.8.7 is not available and it is not
>  : desirable to install this version for most Ruby users (as far as I can
>  : tell from the ML discussions).
>
>  So, Bernd asked where the discussions were...

On ruby-talk, like this one:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/321166

Discussions like this crop up every few weeks or so.

It's like you installed perl 6, named it perl 5.12, and expected it to
run perl 5 code.

If you want to do that I'm not stopping you, I can always change the
makefile to install the version I want. It's just an additional
annoyance.

Thanks

Michal