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

[Randy MacLeod]

On 2015-04-02 12:57 AM, Tim Orling wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:39 PM, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com
> <mailto:akuster808 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Randy,
>
>
>     On 03/02/2015 06:26 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
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>         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.
>
>             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

Thanks for the notice. We're busy with other projects so
we haven't started or even discussed the ruby work yet.

We'll be more active in OE in May or June. We include lots
of OE recipes (meta-networking/webserver/python /...) in WR Linux, FYI.

../Randy
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>
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>             ../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
>             <https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/ReleaseEngineering>
>
>             --
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