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Martin Kleppmann commented on AVRO-1559:
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+1 on dropping 1.8 support but keeping 1.9 support. There's not much benefit in
dropping 1.9 support at this stage, since the differences between 1.9 and 2.0
are much smaller than the differences between 1.8 and 1.9. (Ruby's version
numbering was pretty messed up back then.)
> Drop support for Ruby 1.8
> -------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-1559
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 1.7.7
> Reporter: Willem van Bergen
> Assignee: Willem van Bergen
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-1559.patch
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> - Ruby 1.8 is EOL, and is even security issues aren't addressed anymore.
> - It is also getting hard to set up Ruby 1.8 to run the tests (e.g. on a
> recent OSX, it won't compile without manual fiddling).
> - Handling character encodings in Ruby 1.9 is very different than Ruby 1.8.
> Supporting both at the same time adds a lot of overhead.
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