Today I landed a very large set of commits that port a subset of MRI's IO+encoding logic. The goal is to get all IO-related encoding/transcoding behavior working, plus logic that depends on IO encoding/transcoding.
All tests are passing, after a couple weeks work. Not everything from MRI has been ported; specifically, I did not go through all IO methods, since most delegate back to a few specific ones (read, write, getline, etc). Additional porting may be warranted if there's IO methods that still need work. Because of the scope of this work, Tom and I decided to delay JRuby 1.7.5 (originally planned for release before JRubyConfEU). We have opted to let this work stabilize and potentially work through remaining IO/encoding/transcoding tests that do not pass before the 1.7.5 release, so it can be as solid as possible. If you have projects that use IO or encoding or transcoding heavily, now is a great time to test against JRuby master. Please do so :-) - Charlie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email