From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-06-01T14:58:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 on Gentoo Linux

Sven Schwyn wrote:
> Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working
> on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have
> vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a
> grave.
> 
> -sven

There was an ebuild at one time, but I don't know what happened to it. I 
also don't know if any of the Gentoo developers are working on 1.8.7.

My guess is that there is one or at most two Gentoo developers working 
on Ruby, and they are probably keeping busy tracking Rails and most of 
the standard 1.8.6 stuff. I run a ~amd64 system and that sort of thing 
generally shows up within a day or two after it gets released to 
"ruby-talk".

Both 1.8.7 and 1.9 build just fine on my Gentoo system, so I doubt if 
it's all that difficult to create ebuilds for them. The trick is getting 
them tested.

I just filed a bug to get 1.8.7 going. The bug number is 224439; if 
anyone wants to "me too", it's

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224439