[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1559) Drop support for Ruby 1.8

["Ryan Blue (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-1559:
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We just hit more problems with ruby 1.8 support in AVRO-1785. I just checked HBase and I don't think it depends on the gem after all, and Sean agreed. I think we can move forward with this.

> Drop support for Ruby 1.8
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1559
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.7
>            Reporter: Willem van Bergen
>            Assignee: Willem van Bergen
>             Fix For: 1.8.0
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-1559.patch
>
>
> - Ruby 1.8 is EOL, and is even security issues aren't addressed anymore. 
> - It is also getting hard to set up Ruby 1.8 to run the tests (e.g. on a recent OSX, it won't compile without manual fiddling).
> - Handling character encodings in Ruby 1.9 is very different than Ruby 1.8. Supporting both at the same time adds a lot of overhead.



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