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Re: Ruby security updates
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
Re: Ruby security updates |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jan 2016 22:05:13 -0500 |
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Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> 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