From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-12-27T13:50:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Legacy support (Was: Base64 not there makes Rails 2.0.2 fail to load in 1.9.0)

On Dec 26, 2007, at 06:16 AM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2007, at 2:55 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> There is a required_ruby_version attribute in Gem::Specification.   
>> (It's been there for some time.)  By default it is '> 0'.
>
> and I'm suggesting making it default to <= 1.8.6. That way, we'll be  
> able to keep track of all gems that have not yet been tested by  
> their authors as being ready for 1.9


I think it would be better to add a warning if required_ruby_version  
is left at the default when building a gem.