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Sean Busbey commented on AVRO-1559:
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If we're going to drop support for Ruby versions anyway, we should drop support
for 1.9 as well because it is also EOL, and will no longer receive security
fixes.
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That's not a sufficient reason for us to drop support, since there easily can
still be folks relying on it that would like newer versions of Avro.
If there are ways that supporting Ruby 1.9 is holding us back, I'm happy to
start a Ruby 2.2+ gem along-side the current 1.9+ one so that we can have a
more controlled deprecation period.
> 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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