Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
> 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. )
Are you sure we will add iconv-extra to package dependency this time. I
checked two machines v40z-241-04.sfbay and v490-240-05.sfbay, which are
upgrade to nv107 this week, they don't have iconv-extra.
Chris
>
> 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
>>>
>>
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