On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > According to Ruby 2.0 release schedule: > > - code freeze: 23 Dec. > - 2.0.0-rc1 release: 1W Jan. (expected) > - 2.0.0-rc2 release: 1W Feb. (expected) > - 2.0.0-p0 release: 24 Feb. > > the official release date is quickly approaching. Therefore, I would like to > update you about current plans for Fedora > > * I am trying to closely track recent development of Ruby 2.0 and the .spec > is available in ruby-2.0 branch of dist-git repo [1]. > * I started to put together pieces of feature proposal for Ruby 2.0 in F19 > [2]. > * Every package which depends on Ruby will need to be rebuild. There are > several reasons: > - The Ruby 2.0 is ABI incompatible with Ruby 1.9.3 (although it should be > source level compatible). > - Due to better integration of JRuby into Fedora [3], we would like to > take this opportunity to restructure RubyGems folder > layout. This should allow us to support Rubinius in the future as well. > - I would like to get rid of ruby(abi) virtual provide, since it does not > express enough the level of compatibility > between JRuby and MRI. There is ongoing discussion about it on packaging > list [4]. > > So at the beginning of January, I'd like to ask rel-eng for dedicated build > target for rebuild of Ruby packages (we will probably use this target for > JRuby build as well). Please let me know if you want to opt-out and rebuild > your packages by yourself. > > > Vít > > > > > [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/tree/?id=ruby-2.0 > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ruby_2.0.0 > [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JRuby_1.7.1 > [4] > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-December/008798.html > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Sigh ... now there are *three* incompatible Ruby syntax / semantics "standards" to deal with. Why don't we just ship 'rvm' or 'rbenv' and force everyone to manage their own Ruby environments? ;-) -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://znmeb.github.com/Computational-Journalism-Publishers-Workbench/ How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
