[augeas-devel] Bumping the ruby version for ruby-augeas

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Tom Limoncelli <tal at whatexit.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote:
>
>> Is there any worry about RHEL6 compat?  Latest version there is 1.8.7.
>> I'm more or less comfortable with the augeas that is in RHEL6 today, but I
>> can't speak for others.
>>
>
> There is still a lot of RHEL6 out there. Puppet lists it as an officially
> supported platform (https://docs.puppet.com/guides/platforms.html).
>
> I'm not an expert in Puppet's support policies but it looks like they
> support anything with Ruby ≥ 1.8.7.
>

<https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html>
puppet-agent
<https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html>, which
is what Puppet recommends people use to install Puppet, bundles its own
Ruby (partly for exactly the reasons we are discussing here: to get out of
all the wonderful headaches of Ruby version compatibility)

Of course, distros have their own packages that rely on the distro-packaged
Ruby.

In any event, as it turns out, we can continue keeping ruby-augeas work
against Ruby 1.8.7 and I'll leave that in the Travis job, together with
some newer Rubies.

David
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