On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 00:21 -0800, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > 1. Do users need to know about MRI? I had to search the Web to figure > out that it's referring to Matz's Ruby Interpreter (or CRuby), which > is > the reference implementation. This information (if important) may be > useful to include, like "Ruby MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter) 2.1 ...".
It is perhaps not so useful anymore since we no longer have other ruby implementations, like jruby, in the tree. > Ruby MRI (Matz's Ruby Interpreter) 2.0 was retired by upstream in > February 2016. [1] Following this, Ruby MRI 2.0 support will be > removed > from Gentoo in favor of Ruby MRI 2.1. We recommend updating to the > 'ruby21' target as soon as possible. Thanks, I've used this, but left the "in favor of" part out since ruby21 is already default (with ruby20) in the profiles for some time. > I felt that the base profile variable mention and the bit about MRI > being the best interpreter were better left out, but it also doesn't > actively hurt it. Yes, I guess this is common knowledge now. I used the ruby19 news items as a template, but that was 1.5 years ago. Hans
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