Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the
FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4
Any Day Now (it's been 1.8.2 for ages).
See below if you fancy a preview, the URL has patches you
can apply to your ports tree to try it out.
···
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
> Date: 12 January 2006 00:48:22 GMT
> To: ports@FreeBSD.org
> Cc: alexander@wittig.name
> Subject: [BOO!] Ruby 1.8.4 testers wanted
> Reply-To: pav@FreeBSD.org
>
> Hi people,
>
> Alexander Wittig provided us with patches to upgrade our Ruby to
> 1.8.4.
>
> Because previous attempt to upgrade to 1.8.3 ended in flames, I want
> you, people who run ruby apps, to test the patches before I commit
> them.
> Find the patches at
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/ruby/
>
> Please test them as much as possible.
>
> If I don't hear any screaming, they'll hit the tree during weekend.
>
> In 1.8.4, there is a different behaviour of site-install target from
> mkmf generated Makefiles. Most obvious change is that .h files are no
> longer installed in modules. I hacked mkmf.rb to include install;
> target
> in site-install: target as it was in 1.8.2. Any Ruby wizard to tell me
> how to fix this properly?
>
> I'm interested in which ports broke with 1.8.3 back last fall, so I
> could check them out before committing? Anyone still remember? Kris?
>
> Once this is done, I'd like to start phasing out ruby16. Anyone
> disagree?
Cool, I'll get those patches installed tonight on my server.
Thanks for the tip.
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:23:27 -0500, Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com> wrote:
Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the
FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4
Any Day Now (it's been 1.8.2 for ages).
See below if you fancy a preview, the URL has patches you
can apply to your ports tree to try it out.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
> Date: 12 January 2006 00:48:22 GMT
> To: ports@FreeBSD.org
> Cc: alexander@wittig.name
> Subject: [BOO!] Ruby 1.8.4 testers wanted
> Reply-To: pav@FreeBSD.org
>
> Hi people,
>
> Alexander Wittig provided us with patches to upgrade our Ruby to
> 1.8.4.
>
> Because previous attempt to upgrade to 1.8.3 ended in flames, I want
> you, people who run ruby apps, to test the patches before I commit
> them.
> Find the patches at
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/ruby/
>
> Please test them as much as possible.
>
> If I don't hear any screaming, they'll hit the tree during weekend.
>
> In 1.8.4, there is a different behaviour of site-install target from
> mkmf generated Makefiles. Most obvious change is that .h files are no
> longer installed in modules. I hacked mkmf.rb to include install;
> target
> in site-install: target as it was in 1.8.2. Any Ruby wizard to tell me
> how to fix this properly?
>
> I'm interested in which ports broke with 1.8.3 back last fall, so I
> could check them out before committing? Anyone still remember? Kris?
>
> Once this is done, I'd like to start phasing out ruby16. Anyone
> disagree?
On a slightly related note, ruby has also recently (like, a few days ago) been bumped to 1.8.4 in DarwinPorts (it was still at 1.8.2 for ages as well).
···
On 13 janv. 06, at 16:23, Dick Davies wrote:
Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the
FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4
Any Day Now (it's been 1.8.2 for ages).
I'll let you know tomorrow (if I still have a network).
···
On 13/01/06, tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com <tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com> wrote:
On Saturday 14 January 2006 12:23 am, Dick Davies wrote:
> Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the
> FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4
Does portupgrade with with 1.8.4? I mean all the options, not just a couple
switch commands
