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Re: How to handle libraries bundled with either Ruby 1.8 or Ruby 1.9 (was "Debian Ruby packaging changes")



Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> > What about 2), e.g. rake and rubygems? Do you think we could always
> > default to the non-bundled version for them as well?
> 
> It's a bit tricky. For example, rdoc 1 (shipped in Ruby 1.8) is very
> different from rdoc 2 & 3 (shipped in 1.9). Also, while it's easy to
> override libraries using the vendor_dir precedence, it's not as simple
> to override executables: basically, we would need to drop the
> executables from the interpreter, and depend on the non-bundled version.
> For rubygems, it's very non-trivial.
> 
> Maybe that's something that should be raised on ruby-core@ to see what
> they think? Do you want to prepare a mail?

Yes, I've just included it on my TODO.

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Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>
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