[DRE-maint] Call for ruby 1.9

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 20/12/07 at 14:27 +1100, James Healy wrote:
> Filipe wrote:
> > ruby 1.9 will be out soon (xmas?), and just a few packages from our team are ruby
> > 1.9 compatible.
> > 
> > Probabily a lot of upstream sources do not support ruby 1.9 yet. But
> > this is the change that we got to make it ruby 1.9 compatible and submit
> > changes to upstream and help our upstream source maintainers.
> 
> Has there been any further discussion on paths and such for the 1.9
> package? I notice Lucas brought it up on the debian-ruby list in
> November, but the discussion didn't resolve much.

No further discussion. My plans are to prepare (or get someone to
prepare :p) a ruby1.8 package with the vendor patch used by OpenSUSE,
and upload it to experimental.
Then convert a few of our libs to use it.

The change wouldn't break existing libs, so it might be something we can
still do for lenny.

> I guess in the interim lib*-ruby packages for 1.9 can just follow the
> 1.8 style paths?

yes

> I installed the ruby1.9 package as a trial last week, and the biggest
> issue I had was no rubygems. I've heard rubygems will be part of stdlib
> in 1.9, but it doesn't seem to be there yet. Is it worth creating a
> package for it?

It might have been imported after the last ruby1.9 package was created.
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