Yikes.  I understand now, thanks.  Kind of darned if we do, darned if we
don't.

On 10/29/07, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Chris Nelson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/27/07, *Charles Oliver Nutter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Also...on the "import" deprecation issue: we kinda made our bed in
> 1.0
> >     by including "import", and we can't really deprecate it on the 1.0
> >     line.
> >     But we could deprecate it in 1.1 and provide an alternative. I'd
> feel
> >     better about that than saying it's deprecated across the board.
> >
> >
> > Can we get more detail on this?  Sounds like a pretty terrible
> > regression if import doesn't work anymore.  Any way we can fix this
> > rather than taking it away?  I think you may have some pretty
> > frustrated users if you do that, since that would break a lot of code
> > I should think.  Is there a bug to look at?
> >
> > --Chris
> >
> Import have _never_ worked correctly. The problem is that rake defines a
> global import-method on Kernel, which clashes with our Java integration
> import. The way I discovered this was when writing my book, I created an
> example that imported Java code in the Rails lib-directory. But as soon
> as I tried to do rake db:migrate or rake test, it failed because the
> files in lib couldn't be loaded. This was back in April/May, and the
> JIRA issues dates back to then.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com)
> JRuby Core Developer
> 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.
>
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