On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Mamoru KOMACHI wrote: > Hi all, > > At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:58:10 +0900, > I wrote: > > > I added dev-lang/ruby-1.6.8-r2 and dev-lang/ruby-1.8.0-r1 (both > > ebuilds are masked by package.mask) to support SLOT'd ruby. > > I unmasked ruby-1.6.8-r2 and ruby-1.8.0-r1. If you have installed > <=ruby-1.6.8-r1 or =ruby-1.8.0, please unmerge them first and upgrade > to ruby-1.6.8-r2 and/or ruby-1.8.0-r1. >
....... > > Ruby 1.8.1 will be available in the near future (I just committed > ruby-1.8.1_pre2.ebuild) and I think it is the time to switch to > 1.8. If users want ruby-1.6.8 along with 1.8.x they will be able to > use both 1.6.8 and 1.8.x (since they have different SLOT now). We will > concentrate on supporting packages for 1.8 from now on but keep 1.6.8 > packages as well in case some packages may still be broken. > > Any comments? > > Sounds good to me. I have been using ruby-1.8.0 on one of my (gentoo) sparc systems since late August with no problems. My ruby use isn't all that heavy, but it's enough > 0 that I was getting ready to send off a query addressing this very subject, but you have preempted me. As to 1.6.8 -vs- 1.8.x --- for me, at least, for some applications I am forced into 1.8.0 because of the improved garbage collector performance. (Along those lines, I'd like an easy way to set '-DGC_MALLOC_LIMIT=32000000' or some such in the CFLAGS for the build, rather than having to do it by hand, but that's another story....) > -- > Mamoru KOMACHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.gentoo.org/~usata/ > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
