Package: libqt0-ruby1.8 Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: important
A mistake in the use of include means that Qt methods were being added to "Module" badly poluting its namespace. This bug also breaks the rubyscript2exe program. The good news is that this problem has been fixed upstream but since it is a pretty serious problem I am hoping that the fix gets into sarge. Here is a discussion regarding the bug from: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/7e8234d288fde7d2 Erik Veenstra wrote: >> An 'include Qt' statement in qtruby.rb where a couple of >> methods were being added to class Module was causing all the >> Qt methods to be added to Module. Oops, this a really serious >> bug. Various methods in qtruby.rb are now module methods in >> the Qt::Internal module. > This "hack" caused a problem in RubyScript2Exe when trying to > "compile" a Ruby application which uses Qt. I've tested the > combination RubyScript2Exe and Qt with a little HelloWorld > program. It works! Richard Dale replied: Yes, my mistake was to think of 'include Qt' being just like a 'using namespace' statement in a static language like C++. But it isn't like that at all, and in this case was having quite major unexpected effects. I'd known there was something 'not quite right' in the namespace handling of QtRuby for a while, but couldn't work out what it was. That was I was so pleased when you found the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages libqt0-ruby1.8 depends on: ii libaudio2 1.7-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-8 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libruby1.8 1.8.2-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management ii libsmokeqt1 4:3.3.2-1 SMOKE Binding Library to Qt ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii ruby1.8 1.8.2-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]