Bug#183120: ITP: ruby1.8 - next stable version of Ruby

[Fumitoshi UKAI]

At Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:43:39 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> > Ruby 1.8 is next stable version of Ruby.  (Current stable version is
> > 1.6.x.) ruby1.8 package provides the version of Ruby.
> 
> This makes me feel a bit uneasy, so I'm asking the following questions:
>
> Is there some kind of transition plan ? 
> Is ruby1.8 co-installable with ruby1.6 ?

Yes.  Now, we have ruby and ruby1.7, but we don't see any problem.

Anyway, I think it's time to have debian-ruby@lists.debian.org
to discuss ruby related issues in detail.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI

Bug#183120: ITP: ruby1.8 - next stable version of Ruby

[akira yamada]

> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>   Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This makes me feel a bit uneasy, so I'm asking the following questions:

Ruby 1.6 is not equal to Ruby 1.8.  Users of Ruby should be able to
choose from Ruby 1.6 and 1.8.

> Is there some kind of transition plan ? 

I think that upgrading to 1.8 from 1.6 should not do automatically.

> Is ruby1.8 co-installable with ruby1.6 ?

Yes.  Please see Bug#181192.

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Bug#183120: ITP: ruby1.8 - next stable version of Ruby

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,


> Ruby 1.8 is next stable version of Ruby.  (Current stable version is
> 1.6.x.) ruby1.8 package provides the version of Ruby.

This makes me feel a bit uneasy, so I'm asking the following questions:

Is there some kind of transition plan ? 
Is ruby1.8 co-installable with ruby1.6 ?


(because there always seem to be a lot of trouble with 
perl / python transitions, that ruby may also have similar problems)


regards,
junichi

Bug#183120: ITP: ruby1.8 - next stable version of Ruby

[akira yamada]

Package: wnpp
Severity wishlist

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in perl).  It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.

Ruby 1.8 is next stable version of Ruby.  (Current stable version is
1.6.x.) ruby1.8 package provides the version of Ruby.

Homepage: http://www.ruby-lang.org>

License:

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