[oe] Discuss: ruby-1.9.x EOL -- someone to add ruby-2.2?

[akuster808]

Randy,


On 03/02/2015 06:26 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Randy MacLeod wrote:
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>> As stated in the post below, ruby-1.9.3 is no longer supported
>> and CVEs will not be released.
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>> I'm not a rubyist but I assume we should upgrade to ruby-2.2.0 which
>> became the stable version as of December 25, 2014. Comments?
>> Martin, you are listed as maintainer of the meta-multimedia,
>> do you have any concerns about such an upgrade?
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> No concerns from me.. I don't use ruby much (mostly ruby-native for
> webkit builds) so I would welcome such upgrade.
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>> If anyone wants to start work on this for meta-oe, that'd be great.
>> If no one gets around to it, then a developer from WindRiver will
>> likely be able to work on it but not a few months.

I started on the upgrade. Hope to have it done soon.
- Armin

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>> ../Randy
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>> As of today, all support for Ruby 1.9.3 has ended. Bug and security
>> fixes from more recent Ruby versions will no longer be backported to 1.9.3.
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>> This end of life was announced over a year ago.
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>> We highly recommend that you upgrade to Ruby 2.0.0 or above as soon as
>> possible. Please contact us if you’d like to continue maintaining the
>> 1.9.3 branch or if for some reason you can’t upgrade.
>>
>> Posted by Olivier Lacan on 23 Feb 2015
>> ---
>> Also see:
>> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/ReleaseEngineering
>>
>> --
>> # Randy MacLeod. SMTS, Linux, Wind River
>> Direct: 613.963.1350 | 350 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 200 Ottawa, Ontario,
>> Canada K2K 2W5
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