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diff --git a/metadata/news/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal.en.txt b/metadata/news/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..97c2465f7004 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal/2015-08-26-ruby-19-removal.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Title: Ruby 1.9 removal; Ruby 2.0/2.1 default +Author: Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2015-08-26 +Revision: 2 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/ruby-2.0 + +Ruby MRI 1.9 has been retired by upstream in February 2015.[1] +We remove Ruby MRI 1.9 support from the tree now. In parallel Ruby MRI 2.1 +support will be activated in base profile's RUBY_TARGETS variable by default +in conjunction with Ruby MRI 2.0. + +If your currently eselected Ruby interpreter is ruby19, our recommendation is +to change it to ruby20. At the moment Ruby MRI 2.0 delivers the best possible +support of all Ruby interpreters in tree. + +Check the current setting via: + + eselect ruby show + +Change the current setting to Ruby MRI 2.0 via: + + eselect ruby set ruby20 + +[1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/02/23/support-for-ruby-1-9-3-has-ended/ |