From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ruby security updates
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 22:05:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn8ujfrq.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160109044056.GA18179@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Sat, 9 Jan 2016 05:40:56 +0100")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> Ruby 1.8.7 is still being used. For me one of the selling points of
> GNU Guix is that we can retain older packages when they are still
> useful. The switch from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was quite intrusive and not
> all software made the switch (similar to the python 2 to 3
> switch). Some people argue that the software should be updated, but it
> sometimes proves to be (too) hard or not worth the effort. Ruby 1.8 is
> still a nice interpreter (it was the original Ruby by Matz).
Given this, there's a good chance that someone will backport the
security fix to Ruby 1.8. Maybe it has already been done. Would you
like to look?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-10 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-08 23:48 Ruby security updates Mark H Weaver
2016-01-09 0:15 ` Thompson, David
2016-01-09 4:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-10 3:05 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-01-09 5:15 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-09 9:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-09 9:53 ` Andreas Enge
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