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

[Dominic Cleal]

On 05/05/16 14:49, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov
> <mailto: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.

Puppet 4.x only supports Ruby 1.9.3 or higher, and ships a newer Ruby on
EL6.

I don't see a lot of point in continuing to support EL6 in new releases,
it ships its own old version of Augeas and EPEL6's ruby-augeas remains
on 0.4.1 anyway.

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Dominic Cleal
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