The Road to Ruby 1.9

Plan

Jeroen posted a draft plan. There are two big buckets of items:

• Get Ruby 1.9 built/packaged, as well as rebuilding a sufficient number of ruby packages
• Decide whether supporting both 1.9 and 1.8 is necessary and worthwhile

State

Jeroen van Meeuwen has put up a number of things:

• Koji: http://koji.ergo.project.org, with the following tags and repositories:
  • Enterprise Linux 5 with Ruby 1.9.1:
    • base koji tag and repository
    • updates koji tag and repository
    • updates-testing koji tag and repository
  • Enterprise Linux 6 (Beta) with Ruby 1.9.1:
    • base koji tag and repository
    • updates koji tag and repository
    • updates-testing koji tag and repository
  • Fedora 1x with Ruby 1.9.1 (coming soon)

Also:

• Git repo with specfiles: git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/kanarip/public_git/ruby-specs.git
• Git repo for Ruby itself: git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/kanarip/public_git/ruby.git

Tasks

Interpreter

• Get Ruby 1.9.x built
• Settle on a load path
• Rebuild all rubygem-* and ruby-* packages against 1.9 and file bugs for failures

Ruby packaging

• Settle on a ruby.macros for RPM
• Draft changes to the packaging guidelines
  • ruby(abi) vs. ruby(api)
  • install into vendor lib rather than site lib