Re: pkg/39890

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39890; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39890
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:00:26 +0100

 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