Ruby versions
Jonne Haß
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Discussion on what Ruby versions to support, recommend and migrate to.
Dennis Schubert
Fri 20 Dec 2013 9:55AM
I'd totally vote against it in favour of a easy ruby installation via the systems package manager. But as 2.0 has sooo many improvements, I'd be fine with dropping 1.9.*.
Flaburgan
Fri 20 Dec 2013 11:14AM
In one hand, I don't want diaspora* to be harder to install, in the other hand, if we want to upgrade sidekiq, we kind of have to upgrade to Ruby 2.0. Soooo...
goob
Fri 20 Dec 2013 12:21PM
In an ideal world, I'd like to retain support for previous versions; however if it starts to consume unnecessary resources, I'm happy for it to be dropped.
My vote is almost an abstain: I'm happy for the core team to decide when to drop it.
Jason Robinson
Fri 20 Dec 2013 1:02PM
Happy for the real Ruby knowhow people to decide :)
goob
Fri 20 Dec 2013 6:31PM
In an ideal world, I'd like to retain support for previous versions; however if it starts to consume unnecessary resources, I'm happy for it to be dropped.
I'm happy for those who understand Ruby to decide when to drop support for 1.9.3.
fabianrbz
Fri 20 Dec 2013 10:29PM
alright, I don't mind supporting 1.9.3 for a while
Florian Staudacher
Mon 23 Dec 2013 6:37PM
ideally, we should drop 1.9.3 support, but I think we should at least keep it until we have a few more distros with 2.0 packages
Flaburgan Fri 20 Dec 2013 11:11AM
@goob well the problem can be that we want to upgrade Sidekiq, and the Sidekiq team strongly recommand to upgrade to Ruby 2.0 first. So if we still support Ruby 1.9.3, we will have podmins with an old Ruby but the new sidekiq, and we don't know what will be going on...
Jonne Haß Fri 20 Dec 2013 11:17AM
@goob increased maintenance cost and build times on Travis (if we decide to not drop it here and to run it on travis in the next proposal I'll open).
goob · Fri 20 Dec 2013 10:33AM
What (if any) advantages would there be to dropping support for 1.9.3?