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Sean Busbey commented on AVRO-1559:
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I'm +1 on dropping 1.8, provided we have a prominent release note and we're
fine with the possibility of more 1.7 releases should requests come in.
I'd still like to avoid expressly removing 1.9 as well. I'd prefer to build up
2.2+ support in a different gem.
> 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
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> 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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