Re: pkg/39890: ruby 1.8.6 not available in pkgsrc

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/39890: ruby 1.8.6 not available in pkgsrc
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:49:37 +0000

 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:00:26AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
  > >  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.
 
 So... it's two and a half years later; has the Ruby community come to
 terms with this? If there are still serious compatibility issues, it
 seems to make sense to me to provide a previous-version package, or
 even more than one like we do for certain other interpreters. But if
 the Ruby world has moved on, perhaps we can close this PR...
 
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 David A. Holland
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