Re: Bundler 2

[Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>]

On Tue, 12 May 2020, Josh Holland wrote:

> Indeed I see that gnu/packages/ruby.scm only packages Bundler v1.17.3,
> though Bundler 2 was released in January 2019 [0].  I'm not hugely
> familiar with the Ruby ecosystem, but reading the release announcement
> suggests that they expect users/developers to have both Bundler 1 and
> Bundler 2 available.  If I hadn't seen this, I'd have gone ahead and
> submitted a patch simply upgrading the Bundler package definition, but
> I'm not sure if that will then immediately break every package depending
> on it that expects Bundler 1.
>
> Is this a valid concern?  Should Guix provide packages for both Bundler
> 1 and Bundler 2, or would just Bundler 2 be sufficient?  I'll still
> write a definition for the new version, but I'll hold off submitting a
> patch until I've had some feedback.
>
> [0]: https://bundler.io/blog/2019/01/03/announcing-bundler-2.html

Josh,

Thanks for raising this question.

I'm not a Rubist, but we do wrangle some Ruby code at work (unfortunately, 
not yet with Guix). Our experience has been that everyone interacting with 
the code should use the same Bundler version, so I think that as long as 
Bundler v1 is supportable, we should provide both in Guix.

What do others think?
Jack