[CentOS-devel] [opstools] How to support fluentd with ruby24?

Thu Dec 21 14:45:00 UTC 2017
Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>

On 12/20/2017 11:48 PM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 20/12/17 22:03, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> In addition: fluentd 0.12 is now in maintenance phase:
>> https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluentd-v1.0
>>
>> "Fluentd v0.12 is maintenance phase
>>
>> We continue to update fluentd v0.12 but the main changes are backport
>> and security fix. We focus on v1.0 development."
>>
>>
>  From an enterprise distribution perspective, that's not really bad, no?

It is not good.  And it makes me wonder how many other ruby gems that 
fluentd depends on are going to drop support for older versions that 
work on ruby 2.0, and focus only on ruby 2.4 support . . .

>
> At least, they are providing security fixes;
>
> The opposite is marked by other projects, where you're supposed to stay
> on latest release, which brings new features, requires changes in
> configs and sometimes even requires data migrations.
>
>  From that perspective, I'd prefer to stay on something, which does not
> break my install.

I'm not sure I understand - what would that be?

>
> Matthias
>
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