Re: RFS: ruby-blankslate

[Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>]

On 01/05/2012 01:20 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 04/01/12 at 17:22 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
> > On 01/04/2012 04:41 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > > The correct solution is to make ruby-builder drop it's embedded copy of
> > > blankslate and depend on it instead. Ideally all the other embedded
> > > copies should also be dropped in favor of the standalone package.
> >
> > FYI: that dependency is 1.8 only.
>
> What do you mean?

When run with with Ruby 1.9.x, it uses BasicObject instead.  Related links:

  http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/01/04/Builder-on-1-9

https://github.com/tolsen/builder/commit/349736c15f2df60db6219b86596343a6cbac755b

https://github.com/jimweirich/builder/blob/master/lib/builder/blankslate.rb
  http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/BasicObject.html

It amuses me that the first link above was four years ago yesterday. 
Note that it took over two years to get that patch applied.

> Lucas

- Sam Ruby