Re: 1.7.x and Ruby 1.9

2013-05-30 Thread Philip Martin
Ben Reser writes: > Has anyone considered backporting the Ruby 1.9 compatability to the 1.7.x > line? > > We've got distros shipping with Ruby 1.9 now (e.g. OpenSUSE 12.2) and > not being able to build/use the Ruby bindings without upgrading to 1.8 > seems like a pain. > > I don't know enough Ru

Re: 1.7.x and Ruby 1.9

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Burba
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Ben Reser wrote: > Has anyone considered backporting the Ruby 1.9 compatability to the 1.7.x > line? Ben, FWIW I still haven't succeeded in getting Ruby 1.9 work on Windows with VS2012 yet, despite making some headway (see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revi

1.7.x and Ruby 1.9

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Reser
Has anyone considered backporting the Ruby 1.9 compatability to the 1.7.x line? We've got distros shipping with Ruby 1.9 now (e.g. OpenSUSE 12.2) and not being able to build/use the Ruby bindings without upgrading to 1.8 seems like a pain. I don't know enough Ruby myself to know if we can safely