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

[Martin Jansa]

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.
> 
> ../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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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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