Re: Bug#839567: rake does not work with jruby

2016-11-11 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Miguel Landaeta [16 22:46]: > Resuming the discussion about this bug, I believe the best solution we > can come up right now is to drop the Provides for ruby-interpreter in > jruby, given how late we are on the release cycle already. > > However, I'd like to revisit this issue during "buste

Re: Bug#839567: rake does not work with jruby

2016-11-11 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Hi, Resuming the discussion about this bug, I believe the best solution we can come up right now is to drop the Provides for ruby-interpreter in jruby, given how late we are on the release cycle already. However, I'd like to revisit this issue during "buster" development cycle. jruby provides hi

Re: Bug#839567: rake does not work with jruby

2016-10-04 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Helmut Grohne [161004 06:59]: > I think the implications of having jruby drop ruby-interpreter deserve > more thought from the ruby team. > > It appears to me that jruby would just work with a fair amount of ruby > modules[1]. Yet, after dropping that provides, trying to install e.g. > jruby an

Re: Bug#839567: rake does not work with jruby

2016-10-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 04:46:11PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > I agree with Helmut's suggestion that jruby should drop the Provides. > Even if there are contexts in which jruby could act as a ruby > interpreter, I don't think we should encourage our users to use it > when we have ruby available.