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

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

On 13 June 2011 03:50, David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> 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
> Cc:
> 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...
>

I guess the versions currently in use would be
 - 1.8.7 (which is now available on windows and OS X too so unless you
inflict them on yourself you should not have compatibility issues with
1.8.7 anymore)
 - current 1.9 version (would be 1.9.2 now I guess)
 - possibly previous 1.9 version when the current is fresh and there
are issues with some libraries running on it (not right now but will
happen again it the future I guess)

Thanks

Michal