Re: Candidate new Ruby policy, version 2

2009-06-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
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

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy, version 2

2009-04-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
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 th

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy, version 2

2009-04-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, This is an update of the new ruby policy, which tries to address the various comments that were made. Main changes: - Keep the libxxx-ruby(|xxx) naming scheme. This should make the transition slightly easier. - Add a section about dependencies. Please review and comment! It doesn't cover al

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/04/09 at 20:29 +0200, Michael Schutte wrote: > Hey everyone, > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:15:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Please reply to this mail, even if it's just to say "I'm OK with that". > > I would like to avoid moving further will all this without having broad > > agreeme

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/04/09 at 19:40 +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > What I'm trying to figure out is a way to reduce the amount of work for > everyone involved, not to increase it. Migration will require > non-trivial changes to over 200 packages. Mass migration means that we > can't wait for all maintainers to

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Schutte
Hey everyone, On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:15:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Please reply to this mail, even if it's just to say "I'm OK with that". > I would like to avoid moving further will all this without having broad > agreement that this is the way to go. I’m in favour. :-) > [C] Ruby

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-08 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> How do I add JRuby support to my packages? > Currently, you would have to also install the files into jruby's load > path, preferably in a different binary package. What about native libs? Do they have to have Java replacement for their C

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-08 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On 2009-04-05, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [A] Ruby libraries must support as many as possible of the Ruby versions > available in Debian. That currently includes Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9.0 > (soon 1.9.1), JRuby 1.0, and JRuby 1.1. (Should we drop JRuby 1.0?) > ruby-support --supported lists the

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On 2009-04-05, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [B] Ruby libraries must be installed in "vendor" directories, not mixed > with the ruby standard library. For Ruby1.8 and 1.9, that means > using: > ruby1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8 > ruby1.9.0 /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.9.0 >

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/04/09 at 19:56 +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Lucas Nussbaum > wrote: > >> > [A] Ruby libraries must support as many as possible of the Ruby versions > >> >     available in Debian. That currently includes Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9.0 > >> >     (soon 1.9.1), JRub

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-06 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> > [A] Ruby libraries must support as many as possible of the Ruby versions >> >     available in Debian. That currently includes Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9.0 >> >     (soon 1.9.1), JRuby 1.0, and JRuby 1.1. (Should we drop JRuby 1.0?) >> >     ruby-

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/04/09 at 06:31 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:15:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > New rules: > > == > > [A] Ruby libraries must support as many as possible of the Ruby versions > > available in Debian. That currently includes Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9.0 >

Re: Candidate new Ruby policy

2009-04-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:15:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > New rules: > == > [A] Ruby libraries must support as many as possible of the Ruby versions > available in Debian. That currently includes Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9.0 > (soon 1.9.1), JRuby 1.0, and JRuby 1.1. (Should we drop