Chris, Yes, it's not a Ruby problem. Lets just put in iconv-extra for
now - since this will help the Ruby unit tests. It still won't make the
tests pass, but its a necessary part of the solution.
About iconv-extra not being available, I just looked on a machine that
we recently upgraded, and it's present there.( This is a question for
the ETC folk who set up our machines. )
I'm not sure what conversions the other iconv packages bring in. Lets
think about adding them in after the 1.8.7 putback.
Your comment on GNU iconv is a good one - we may at some point want to
move to using GNU Iconv, and hence avoid a whole class of issues. I
don't think we have time for that this in putback - we need to be quick
in order to make nv 109.
thanks
-ps
Chris Zhu wrote:
> Although the ruby test failed in some iconv conversion, but i don't
> think it's a problem of ruby. It's the problem of Solaris iconv, when
> we run iconv in command line, the same conversion failed either. Add
> SUNWiconv-extra as a package dependency can just solve part of the
> problem of code set conversion, and how about other iconv modules such
> as UNWiconv-extra2 and SUNWiconv-unicode? BTW, SUNWiconv-extra is not
> installed in nv107 by default, I wondered if we can add it as package
> dependency for ruby.
> It seems Gnu-iconv gives better support than the Solaris-iconv, but
> it's not include in solaris nv yet.
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
> Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
>> Can we add SUNWiconv-extra as a package dependency? The following
>> conversion doesn't work if it's not in there.
>>
>> require 'iconv'
>> iconv = Iconv.new('SHIFT_JIS', 'EUC-JP')
>>
>> thanks
>> -ps
>>
>>
>> Chris Zhu wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here's the webrev for CR6764580 & CR6788394, see
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~chriszhu/ruby187_gem131/
>>> "6764580 RubyGems needs updating to work with the latest versions of
>>> Ruby on Rails"
>>> "6788394 Upgrade Ruby to 1.8.7",
>>> Now ruby 1.8.7 and rubygem 1.3.1 are widely used in most of the web
>>> apps, we'd like to put both of them into webstack, please help to
>>> review.
>>> It depends on the rubygem upgrade to 1.3.1 which has been raised by
>>> Amanda, following link gives more detail info:
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~tekgrrl/gems131-CR6764580-2/
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89892&tstart=0,
>>> then we added "upgrade ruby to 1.8.7" into the same workspace.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Chris
>>
>
