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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Jean Boussier <jean.boussier@shopify.com>
Cc: unicorn-public@yhbt.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update ruby_version requirement to allow ruby 3.0
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:41:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200901154117.GA1551@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F8D7B612-2EC7-4848-B9D7-615E3740BFCE@shopify.com>

Jean Boussier <jean.boussier@shopify.com> wrote:
> >> I don't really see any reason to protect against newer Ruby version.
> > 
> > I do: Ruby does not have a good track record when it comes to
> > maintaining backwards compatibility.
> 
> Regardless, preventing the gem installation before the version even exists
> cause massive pains to people trying to do the good thing of testing their
> app against ruby master.
> 
> Until it is known that compatibility is broken, restricting the ruby version
> causes more harm than good. Just this morning I had to submit patches
> to a dozen gems.

That sucks.  Perhaps adding warnings about untested+unsupported
versions to test_helper.rb and extconf.rb is a better way to go?
(nothing annoying at runtime after it's installed, though)

Then, maybe leave the version check out of the gemspec entirely.

Fwiw, the type of breakage from incompatibilities I'm worried
about is subtle things that don't show up immediately
(e.g. encodings, hash ordering, frozen strings, etc...).

Stuff that obviously breaks at startup is preferable
(e.g. I added some 1.9 symbol hash keys to signal the move
away from 1.8).

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-01 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-01 12:17 [PATCH] Update ruby_version requirement to allow ruby 3.0 Jean Boussier
2020-09-01 14:48 ` Eric Wong
2020-09-01 15:04   ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-01 15:41     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-09-03  7:52       ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-03  8:25         ` Eric Wong
2020-09-03  8:29           ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-03  9:31             ` Eric Wong
2020-09-03 11:23               ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-04 12:34                 ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-06  9:30                   ` Eric Wong
2020-09-07  7:13                     ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-08  2:24                       ` Eric Wong
2020-09-08  8:00                         ` Jean Boussier
2020-09-08  8:50                           ` Eric Wong
2020-09-08  8:56                             ` Jean Boussier

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