On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ola Bini <ola.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick Sieger wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Hirotsugu Asari<asari.r...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> What is the policy about these directories, which I assume are copies of >>> MRI's counterparts. When do they get synchronized with MRI? >>> >> >> There's no strict policy, but we try to upgrade them wholesale when a >> particular release or patchlevel of Ruby seems to stabilize. We also >> apply critical fixes from time to time if they're security advisories >> that look like they could affect JRuby as well. >> >> Also, lately we've been talking how we'd prefer not to modify them in >> JRuby's repository because we tend to lose such modifications over >> time. >> >> /Nick >> >> > I've been starting to think that maybe it would be better if we could > package our modifications as monkey patches - that way they would be totally > separate from the files. Another alternative is to have our modifications > represented as diffs in the repository. That might also make it easier to > handle them. Agree. Although ruby critical patches are released quickly there are situations where other non critical bugs can be solved and released first in jruby because I think you relase new versions faster than the ruby guys so we don't need to wait them. > > > Cheers > -- > Ola Bini (http://olabini.com) > Ioke creator (http://ioke.org) > JRuby Core Developer (http://jruby.org) > Developer, ThoughtWorks Studios (http://studios.thoughtworks.com) > Practical JRuby on Rails (http://apress.com/book/view/9781590598818) > > "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- David Calavera http://www.thinkincode.net
