From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T14:30:14+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 10:50 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

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

What about all the untouched gems on rubyforge, though. If folks don't  
update them for 1.9, thy gem won't get rebuilt and the warning won't  
get triggered. And these are exactly the gems I'm worried about.

If instead we warn when the gem is used, we'll catch the untended  
gems. Hopefully, pressure from their users will then get the  
maintainers to update them


Dave