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

[Tim Orling]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:39 PM, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Randy,
>
>
> On 03/02/2015 06:26 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 09:14:29AM -0500, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As stated in the post below, ruby-1.9.3 is no longer supported
>>> and CVEs will not be released.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> No concerns from me.. I don't use ruby much (mostly ruby-native for
>> webkit builds) so I would welcome such upgrade.
>>
>>  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
>

I will help if there is any collateral damage in meta-openembedded.
-Tim

>
>
>>> ../Randy
>>>
>>> ---
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> This end of life was announced over a year ago.
>>>
>>> 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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