The last release on the Ruby 1.8 series, 1.8.7, is scheduled for LTS starting June, and total EOL June 2013: http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4996
The Ruby 1.9 series brings massive speed improvements over the 1.8 series due to the new YARV/KRI bytecode interpreter. In addition to the massive speed improvements, new event-based libraries take advantage of new Ruby 1.9 features such as light weight threads (fibers), and are therefore 1.9 exclusive. That said, a not unsubstantial amount of 1.8 software does not run on 1.9. We have had the 1.9 series, and the 1.9.1 (through present 1.9.3) API, in Debian since before squeeze. What I would like for Wheezy would be: 1. Change the default ruby interpreter in Wheezy to 1.9.3. [1] 2. Drop the ruby1.8 option after the release of Wheezy I think 1.8-only programs are O.K. for wheezy, but if they can't be ported to 1.9 should be dropped for wheezy+1 due to lack of ability to support the old interpreter. Also, we should consider how capable we will at doing security fixes past upstream EOL of Ruby 1.8[.7] Thoughts? Needs? Comments? -- -Shawn Landden [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2012/05/msg00046.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1337890947.2658.199.camel@shawn-ssd
