[MacPorts] #64906: fixing Ruby for PowerPC

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#64906: fixing Ruby for PowerPC
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  Reporter:  barracuda156    |      Owner:  kimuraw
      Type:  defect          |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports           |    Version:  2.7.2
Resolution:  wontfix         |   Keywords:  powerpc, leopard, snowleopard
      Port:  ruby27, ruby30  |
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Comment (by kencu):

 So let this be a tiny lesson to people.

 If you open many tickets about little failures, the end result is the port
 is locked down to prevent you from ever trying to build it again.

 This is why you see me trying to be a bit judicious about 1000s of tickets
 being opened, and closing many of them (at least I was previously closing
 many of them).

 If you want ruby on PPC Tiger and Leopard (and as I recall it works quite
 well, almost all tests pass as above) what you do is FIX THE PROBLEM
 yourself and PR the fix into GitHub for the maintainer to commit, just
 posting that it fixed XYZ problem.

 The more you make the port look broken to people, the more likely this
 will happen to it.

 Now, you see, it will be hard to impossible to ever get ruby support back
 for PPC in MacPorts, once this decision has been made. So this is where
 you wind up.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64906#comment:9>
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