[sles-beta] ruby in the Web and Scripting module

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Mon, Jun 23, David Byte wrote:

> Is it safe to assume that changes in Ruby have to synced with compatibility with Yast now as well?

As of today, nobody can say anything how this all will develop,
too much depends on "upstream" we cannot influence.
But there is no problem that YaST will continue to use the current
ruby implementation and modules until the EOL of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
independent of any ruby updates we will do.

  Thorsten

> David Byte
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> >>> "Matthias G. Eckermann" <mge at suse.com> 6/23/2014 1:43 PM >>>
> On 2014-06-23 T 12:35 -0600 Mike Friesenegger wrote:
> > On 06/23/2014 12:22 PM, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> 
> > >the answer to both questions is: Only for Ruby on
> > >Rails, not for Ruby as a programming language.
> 
> > Will newer versions of Ruby not just Ruby on Rails be
> > made available either as a SLES12 update or via a
> > module?
> 
> Fully backward compatible ruby versions might be
> provided as part of SLES over the years.
> 
> If we would ship non-backward compatible ruby versions
> for SLES 12 at all has not been decided yet. This
> certainly depends on the development in the ruby
> (language) community.
> 
> so long -
> 	MgE
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