Re: Retirement of Ruby 1.8.7

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:26:59AM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> > In message <20150226132905.GB2289%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> > 	on Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:29:05 +0100,
> > 	Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:37:32PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> > >> Currently, these packages are supported by ruby18 only and Cc'ed to
> > >> tech-pkg@ and MAINTAINER of these packages.
> > >> 
> > >> 	audio/amarok-kde3
> > > 
> > > Does Amarok really need Ruby? That sounds wrong.
> > Have you read README file?
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> >  DEPENDENCIES
> > ==============
> > 
> > Required
> >     * KDE-Libs 3.3 (or newer)
> >       http://www.kde.org
> > 
> >     * TagLib 1.4 (or newer)
> >       (metadata tagging library)
> >       http://freshmeat.net/projects/taglib
> > 
> >     * Ruby 1.8
> >       (programming language, used for scoring, lyrics, last.fm streams)
> >       http://www.ruby-lang.org
> 
> So a few plugins that can be disabled. That's not that essential.

Well, the configure script insists on ruby18:

 ==========================
 ===  Amarok - ERROR  ==========================================================
 ==========================
 =
 = The Ruby programming language is not installed. Please obtain Ruby
 = (version 1.8 or later) from http://ruby-lang.org, or install a distribution
 = package. To build Amarok requires the Ruby header files as well, which some
 = distributions package separately.
 =

and 1.9.3 is not recognized as ok.
 Thomas