Bug 199487

Summary:	Ruby 1.9 release coming Christmas
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description M. Edward Borasky 2007-11-18 01:20:02 UTC

There is going to be a release of Ruby 1.9 on Christmas Day, 2007. Given that Gentoo has "ruby-config" to allow selection of the Ruby interpreter, can we get an ebuild for Ruby 1.9 in the tree or in an overlay so we can start testing it? I don't think there's a tarball yet -- you need to get it from the Subversion repository with

svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk ruby

At one point there was a "dev-lang/ruby-cvs" ebuild that worked this way -- it checked the code out from upstream and built it. They've moved to Subversion, but other than that it should be easy to do.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-18 01:35:16 UTC

Requesting an ebuild for something that will be out in 5 weeks and that has nothing to download but live SVN is really beyond belief...

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap6 (Zero-day bump requests) - perhaps we need to add a note about unreleased stuff there?!