Re: 1.7.x and Ruby 1.9

Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> writes:

> Has anyone considered backporting the Ruby 1.9 compatability to the 1.7.x line?
>
> We've got distros shipping with Ruby 1.9 now (e.g. OpenSUSE 12.2) and
> not being able to build/use the Ruby bindings without upgrading to 1.8
> seems like a pain.
>
> I don't know enough Ruby myself to know if we can safely do this to 1.7.x.

I can confirm that r1407206, which introduced the Ruby 1.9 support,
applies cleanly to 1.7.x and 'make check-swig-rb' then passes on my
Debian box with ruby1.9.1-dev installed. (Ruby versioning is
complicated: the package name is ruby1.9.1 but the version is
1.9.3.194-8.1.)

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