[ruby-core:84299] Re: [Ruby trunk Bug#14189] Webrick 1.4.0. release requires unreleased ruby version 2.5.0dev

[e-mail] wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Looking over 61155, it does seem rather odd to constrain updates to WEBrick to ruby >= 2.5 for two warnings.  Also, I believe WEBrick is the only gem affected by it.  Don't know what your thoughts are...

I am of two minds; for my projects which were never in ruby-core,
I still support 1.9.3 (even if ruby-core does not).

But one appeal of working on stdlib is being able to use (and
test) new Ruby features right away.

> Also, re users not needing to install WEBrick, from over in the RubyInstaller repo, the first thing many people do with a Ruby install is `gem update` (which is why I asked a while ago about a digest gem).  If WEBrick can maintain compatibility with 2.3 forward, it would probably help a lot of support people...

The thing is, ruby 2.4 and earlier do not have webrick installed as a
gem by default; it wasn't a default gem until 2.5.  So "gem update"
for a 2.4 user should still never see this unless they willingly
had an ancient 1.3.1 installed.

I'm not sure what hsbt and the rest of ruby-core wants to do.
Personally, I do not like version guards, either.

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