[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] ruby: bump to version 2.1.2
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Aug 29 07:56:01 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I don't really know much about Ruby. Is 2.1.x compatible with 1.9.x or
>> is it like Python2/Python3?
> I don't really know much about Ruby either. But, about Ruby 2.0,
> Wikipedia says:
> ""
> Ruby 2.0 is intended to be fully backward compatible with Ruby 1.9.3.
> As of the official 2.0.0 release on February 24, 2013, there were only
> five known (minor) incompatibilities.
> ""
> And then, about Ruby 2.1, they say:
> ""
> Ruby 2.1.0 was released on Christmas Day in 2013.[31] The release
> includes speed-ups, bugfixes, and library updates. Starting with 2.1.0,
> Ruby is using semantic versioning.
> ""
> So I believe we can simply bump the ruby package to 2.1, and not bother
> keeping two separate packages.
Ok, thanks - Committed to next.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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