When to formally drop support for MRI 1.8?

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When to formally drop support for MRI 1.8? #330

Closed postmodern closed 8 years ago

postmodern commented 9 years ago

Currently, chruby checks for whether RUBY_ENGINE is defined. This code is only needed by MRI 1.8, which is no longer supported or maintained by ruby-core. When should we formally drop support for MRI 1.8? Considering how MRI 1.8 no longer receives security fixes and can't even compile on modern systems, continuing to support it seems harmful to the Ruby ecosystem.

postmodern commented 9 years ago

/cc @havenwood

aprescott commented 9 years ago

Are there available statistics on MRI versions installed across standard OS images?

postmodern commented 9 years ago

Ping @zzak, does ruby-core keep download stats?

deivid-rodriguez commented 9 years ago

Less than 1% of the people who filled this in is using it. It'd be useful to know how many people filled it in.

postmodern commented 8 years ago

Going to close this as 1.8 is but a memory now.