On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Eric Hodel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 03:15, Chad Woolley wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Eric Hodel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I would like to make --format-executable the default for 1.4+. It seems >>> many more people are running multiple versions of ruby these days. >>> >> I've committed this to trunk in rev 2278. Didn't write any new tests, but >> I >> tried it out and it worked for me. Please test and report any problems. >> > Please revert this change. There wasn't even 24 hours of discussion on > this before you made it. > > When the feature was introduced there was a fairly lengthy discussion with > the JRuby folks. I doubt they've even had a change to check this list. > > While this is a low-traffic list, not everybody can read it every minute of > the day. I'd rather wait a week to ensure that any objections can be met, > especially when the default change affects multiple ruby implementations. > OK. Reverted and made a patch: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=26754&group_id=126&atid=577 - I thought when you said "I would like" it meant "make it so". I'd like to get feedback from JRuby or anyone else about required changes to this, because this is a blocker to multiple MRI interpreters coexisting [1]. Also, I'm pretty sure there's a bug in the existing code [2] Thanks, -- Chad [1] http://github.com/thewoolleyman/bootstrap-ruby [2] incorrect symbol name :no_format_executable in Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand#do_rubygems_update line 142. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
