Re: Ruby security updates

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

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