Re: HEADSUP: ruby-1.9.3 (attn: Jari, David, Ken)

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 8/21/2012 7:53 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2012-08-21 04:38, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Upstream has announced EOL for Ruby 1.8.x; right now it is receiving
> > only security fixes.  Therefore, it is now time to move on to the
> > now-stable 1.9.x series.
> >
> > For the moment, the latest release is here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/uploads/ruby/
>
> I have moved 1.9.3-p194-1 into the distro as a test release.  Please
> update and/or test your packages ASAP.

I tested three of the TeX Live scripts (match_parens, epspdf, and 
texexec), and all fail with a slew of error messages.  As an example, 
I'm attaching the output of 'texexec test.tex 2> texexec.out'.  I'm also 
attaching test.tex; it's a ConTeXt file that I successfully compiled 
with texexec two days ago.

I don't know anything about ruby, but the error messages don't appear to 
me to have anything to do with the specific scripts.

Ken

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