When to drop Ruby 1.9 support?

[mattbrictson]

Airbrussh currently runs fine on Ruby 1.9 and up. However since Ruby's maintainers have officially dropped all support for 1.9, it doesn't really make sense to devote our time to supporting a dead version of Ruby.

Can Airbrussh safely stop supporting 1.9? Are there a lot of Airbrussh users still on 1.9? (Seems there is at least one.)

Suggestions, speculation, and discussion welcome! 😃

Here are some ideas:

• Maintain 1.9 support as long as SSHKit and Capistrano do
• Drop 1.9 support now (no time like the present!)
• Wait until Airbrussh 1.0 (which will be…?)

/cc @robd @carlesso

[robd]

When I initially mentioned ruby versions, I hadn't realised that we supported it. In actual fact, I haven't found any cases where it was an issue (apart from adding a missing UTF-8 comment to a test). Unless it starts becoming an overhead, I reckon we should support it in versions where SSHKit supports it, especially if we are going to try and get Airbrussh merged into SSHKit.

[mattbrictson]

Good points. Let's track SSHKit and keep 1.9 support around as long as SSHKit does.