From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-09-27T02:48:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32572] Re: Cross-compilation bugs and seek for help

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> It might be off topic though I have to mention this anyway. �This is not for
> Luis, but other Ruby programmers:
>
> (2010/09/13 7:23), Luis Lavena wrote:
>> However, latest changes and the backport misses in 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and
>> 1.9.2 from trunk are not allowing this tool provide a working Ruby
>> version for these developers.
>
> I am honestly skeptic for 1.8.7's getting convenient any more. �Stop using
> that old version today and just start using 1.9.2. �That doesn't mean core
> team is finishing 1.8.7, but YOU should. �For ones who already deployed 1.8.7,
> we offer fixes for a while, but if you are to start providing something, 1.8.7
> is not a wiser choice.
>

While I agree 100% with you, there are still many many library authors
that haven't upgraded their libraries or applications for 1.9.x, even
less for just released 1.9.2

In my position as maintainer of RubyInstaller I have no alternative
but provide support for what Ruby-Core consider supported: 1.8.7
included.

But, as library author (particularly rake-compiler), I'm considering
dropping it support, specially related to the cross-compilation
issues:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/00759680baf16d9b#

Cheers,
-- 
Luis Lavena
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