{"id":708,"date":"2012-01-01T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2012-01-01T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T14:37:37","slug":"re-ubuntu-vs-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Re: Ubuntu vs Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/Ubuntu-vs-Ruby\">original post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&gt; If Ubuntu 12.04 if a LTS release, and Ruby 1.8.7 goes out of support in June of<br \/>\n&gt; 2013, then why is the default still 1.8.7?<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; Ruby 1.9.2 was released in 2010. Ruby 1.9.3 was released in October of this year.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s almost nobody in the Ubuntu development community doing any Ruby\u00a0work.  Packages are just imported from Debian, and Ubuntu follows what is done\u00a0on the Debian side.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/Teams\/Ruby\">Debian\/Ruby team<\/a>, we are\u00a0currently transitioning to a new packaging helper (gem2deb) that makes it much<br \/>\neasier to support several Ruby versions. Once this will be done, switching to\u00a01.9.3 by default will be very easy. We already provide <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/Ruby\">a way for the sysadmin to change the default\u00a0on a system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, doing that transition takes time, and we could have used *your* help (and\u00a0could still use it). We are still quite on time to do it for Debian wheezy, but\u00a0it sounds very hard to do it for Ubuntu 12.04 unless someone from Ubuntu steps<br \/>\nup to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(original post) &gt; If Ubuntu 12.04 if a LTS release, and Ruby 1.8.7 goes out of support in June of &gt; 2013, then why is the default still 1.8.7? &gt; &gt; Ruby 1.9.2 was released in 2010. Ruby 1.9.3 was released in October of this year. First, there&#8217;s almost nobody in the Ubuntu development community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}