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Re: Retirement of Ruby 1.8.7



Miwa Susumu <miwarin%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> 2015-02-26 19:37 GMT+09:00 Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>:
>
>> If no one object, I'll remove ruby18(-base) (Ruby 1.8.7) package from
>> pkgsrc before next branch (pkgsrc-2015Q1).
>
> By the way, ruby 1.9.3 became EOL.
> Do we then retired the ruby 1.9.3?
>
> Support for Ruby 1.9.3 has ended
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/02/23/support-for-ruby-1-9-3-has-ended/

Generally, EOL upstream is not enough to decide to remove something.

It's a balance of the pain of keeping it vs usefulness to the set of
pkgsrc-using people, and depends on whether people still using it can be
basically told (fairly) that they are deliquent for not having updated.

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