Proposal to introduce "port select ruby"

kimura wataru kimuraw at macports.org
Sat Mar 9 18:41:44 PST 2013


Hi,

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:32:43 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I appreciate this effort!
> 

>> - avoid conflicts between port:rb-* and port:rb19-*. 
>>   install commands like perl5's p5.nn-*, such as port:p5.12-app-ack.
>>     - commands without suffix under ${prefix}/libexec/ruby${branch}/
>>     - suffixed commands under ${prefix}/bin/
> 
> We should decide if we want to follow the naming scheme of python by
> using rb19-* or with perl by using rb1.9-*.
> 

I think we need no to change 19 to 1.9. 
Ruby's versioning policy allows only single digit version numbers,
like 1.10.

-- 
kimura wataru


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