On 15/04/09 at 07:13 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí: > > [E] Dependencies between Ruby packages: > > Applications that use the Ruby interpreter and ruby libraries: > > MUST choose (and be tested) with a specific Ruby version, and > > depend on the exact ruby version. > > MUST depend on libruby1.X for that version of Ruby. > > SHOULD NOT depend on ruby1.X directly, unless it needs the > > interpreter binary. > > MUST NOT depend on 'ruby'. > > What about development tools such as rake, rcov etc? They can depend on > specific Ruby versions, but they are intended to be version-independent. > (even being able to test a library with several Ruby versions would > require in most cases using rake with several different Ruby versions) > > Suppose I stick to ruby1.9 and rake's maintainer chooses that rake > depend on ruby1.8, this would force me to have the ruby1.8 stack > installed on my system even if I don't intend to use it, and I would be > forced to use `ruby1.9 /usr/bin/rake` to be able to use it with the ruby > version I prefer.
I think that Debian should have a "default current ruby version", and that all applications should use that version, unless there's a very good reason not to use it. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
