Features/Ruby 1.9.1

Ruby 1.9.1

Summary

Release Ruby-1.9.1

Owner

• Name: Jeroen van Meeuwen

Interested People

• Name: (...)

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 12
• Last updated: Mon Mar 16 2009
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Ruby-1.9.1 is upstream's new major release of Ruby.

Benefit to Fedora

The usual... we'd be the first to release Ruby-1.9.1, unless another distro beats us to it.

Scope

Requires rebuilding numerous packages that depend on ruby(abi) = 1.8, or have Requires or BuildRequires for package dependent on ruby(abi) = 1.8

Packages that require "ruby(abi) = 1.8"

• 80 in total

repoquery -c rawhide-i386.conf --qf="%{SOURCERPM}" --whatrequires "ruby(abi) = 1.8" | sort | uniq

Packages that require "*ruby*"

• 119 in total (80 matches from previous query, of course)

repoquery -c rawhide-i386.conf --qf="%{SOURCERPM}" --whatrequires "*ruby*" | sort | uniq

Test Plan

1. Make a compatibility package available: compat-ruby1.8-1.8.6.287
   1. Rebuild packages requiring ruby(abi) = 1.8 against the compat- package
2. Release ruby-1.9.1
   1. Start moving packages to requiring ruby(abi) = 1.9 and test functionality
   2. Fix upstream whereever possible

User Experience

1. None whatsoever, or I just don't care

Dependencies

• Maintainers of packages dependent on ruby need to be in the loop
• provenpackager membership for /me

Contingency Plan

• Revert compat-ruby1.8-1.8.6.287 to just ruby-1.8.6.287

Documentation

• http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_1_0/NEWS

Release Notes

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