Config vs RbConfig : https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v1_9_3_327/lib/rbconfig/obsolete.rb#L4
so i understand 1.8.x (latest is 1.8.7 [1]) works with RbConfig too [2] ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8 On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > > > This patch fixes compatibility with ruby 1.9. > > > > There are far far far deeper issues with ruby 1.8.x != 1.9.x behavior > that need to be addressed. > > There is no "consensus" (no even a goal) stated that might lead to > a more useful implementation. Instead there are gobs of macro magic > glue to enable/disable and otherwise diddle up band-aids to a fundamentally > flawed approach. > > Please read my comments (Sept 2009 iirc, +/- a year, was September) > on <rpm-devel@rpm5.org> on fundamental design differences between > "embedding" (as undertaken by me @rpm5.org) and "bindings" for a build > system in ruby (as my existing implementation was (ab)used for). > > I see no rational way to extend RPM+RUBY usefully and portably by > applying Yet More Macro Madness (in distro-du-jour dialect), with > known and large differences in "embedding" behavior between > ruby 1.8.x != 1.9.x implementations, particularly when all the > cool kids interest is in creating a native ruby packaging system, > not in devising more "standard" ruby *.rpm packaging. > > YMMV > > 73 de Jeff > > > -- > > Regards, > > Per Øyvind > > <rpm-5.4.9-ruby1.9-fixes.patch> > > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org > -- glen
