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

["Tim Perkins (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tim Perkins commented on AVRO-1559:
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Is it worth revisiting the question of supported Ruby versions for a Avro 1.9.0 release?

At the time I'm writing this comment, Ruby 2.2 and earlier are no longer maintained.

I'm in favor of only supporting Ruby 2.3 (released 2015-12-25) and later, and explicitly testing against all the supported Ruby versions in the build.

It seems unlikely to me that somebody would be willing to accept a major Avro update while being unwilling to update Ruby.

> Drop support for Ruby 1.8
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1559
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
>             Project: Apache Avro
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: ruby
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.7
>            Reporter: Willem van Bergen
>            Assignee: Willem van Bergen
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.9.0
>
>         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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