Upstream has announced EOL for Ruby 1.8.x; right now it is receiving
only security fixes. Therefore, it is now time to move on to the
now-stable 1.9.x series.
For the moment, the latest release is here:
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/uploads/ruby/
The newly ITP'd libyaml0_2 is a new dependency.
The following distro packages depend on Ruby, by maintainer:
Jari Aalto: bsfilter, rdtool (needs update)
David Rothenberger: subversion-ruby (patch for 1.9 here[1])
Ken Brown: texlive-collection-binextra, texlive-collection-context,
texlive-collection-pictures
rdtool and subversion-ruby will need to be updated/rebuilt for 1.9.3.
The others are only scripts, so they just need to be tested for proper
operation with 1.9.3.
I would like to make this transition in the next few weeks; I'm already
working on rebuilding ruby-dependent packages in Ports. Please let me
know if I can be of any assistance.
TIA,
Yaakov
[1]
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/subversion.git/plain/subversion-1.7.2-ruby19.patch
