Re: Removing ruby22?

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:19:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:22:03PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> In message <20180623091033.337zxuianzoor5hw@danbala>
> >> 	on Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:10:33 +0200,
> >> 	Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:
> >> > Hi!
> >> > 
> >> > https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/06/20/support-of-ruby-2-2-has-ended/
> >> > 
> >> > says
> >> > 
> >> > "We announce that all support of the Ruby 2.2 series has ended.
> >> Yes, I know.
> >> 
> >> > For that reason, I suggest we remove ruby22 from pkgsrc.
> >> Only problem is ruby22 only pacakges: ruby-redmine and its friends.
> >
> > The changelog for redmine 3.4.0 claims that it supports ruby-2.4 (see
> > also https://www.redmine.org/issues/25048).
> >
> > ryoon (MAINTAINER), can you please update the package to 3.4.x?
> 
> Sure, but that's a clue that despite upstream ruby stopping support for
> 2.2, that it isn't really "no longer useful, and nobody should be using
> it", so deletion seems premature.

Well, I disagree. redmine-3.4.0 supporting ruby-2.4 was released
nearly a year ago. We're just behind in the pkgsrc update.
 Thomas