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Sean Busbey commented on AVRO-1559:
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Ruby 2.0 is bad news. Requiring it will mean that we don't work with any
version of JRuby, for example, because JRuby 1.7 is Ruby 1.8 - 1.9 and JRuby 9k
is Ruby 2.2.
The HBase project relies on JRuby for our shell. We can probably rely on
JRuby's java support to wrap the java library, but I don't if we're already
doing that. We require Ruby 1.8 compatibility in our current stable line (HBase
1.y) and won't have a new major version until early 2016 probably.
> Drop support for Ruby 1.8
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>
> Key: AVRO-1559
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 1.7.7
> Reporter: Willem van Bergen
> Assignee: Willem van Bergen
> Fix For: 1.8.0
>
> Attachments: AVRO-1559.patch
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> - Ruby 1.8 is EOL, and is even security issues aren't addressed anymore.
> - It is also getting hard to set up Ruby 1.8 to run the tests (e.g. on a
> recent OSX, it won't compile without manual fiddling).
> - Handling character encodings in Ruby 1.9 is very different than Ruby 1.8.
> Supporting both at the same time adds a lot of overhead.
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