Nick Sieger wrote:
On 12/11/07, Thomas E Enebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok so I can put out a binary distro of 1.0.3 and in order for that to
be smooth I need to release an updated jruby-openssl. Here is the
problem (for windows):
1. Rails 2 requires openssl
2. JRuby 1.0.3 binary is compiled against Java 1.4 because that is
what we support
3. jruby-openssl is only supported using Java 1.5
For the record, now that I think about it, this may not be totally
true. The 1.5 feature that is not in 1.4 that we rely on is
javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine. If we compile a 1.4-compatible jar and the
program never uses https -- maybe it will work?
4. jruby 1.0.3 binary will not run Rails 2
5. lack of profit!
So questions:
1. Would a 1.4 and 1.5 binary for 1.0.3 work? For people who want to
do Rails in 1.4 envs this sort of sucks. Plus it may not be too clear
what the issue is.
2. Is there any ways of making jruby-openssl work with Java 1.4? I
believe there are 1.4 BC jars?
3. Can we eliminate jruby-openssl as a req for Rails 2? Like monkey
patching in at least one place?
So, the only place that uses openssl in Rails 2 is the new cookie
store, which unfortunately is the default. So we'd need to have a
patched copy of Rails which does not use the cookie store. The only
classes it uses are OpenSSL::HMAC and OpenSSL::Digest.
I really hate the idea of not being able to support Rails 2 on
windows. It is even possible another part of Rails will slurp in
jruby-openssl and this will be an issue for more than just Windows.
So here's a new idea. openssl really sucks for us because it's such a
monolithic beast.
What if all 'require "openssl"' did on JRuby was load a ruby file that
contained a bunch of autoloads for all the constants in openssl? We
could attempt to fill in as many as possible in the base JRuby
distribution, and only supply the current error ("please install
jruby-openssl") for the ones that we need it.
No way. Please. It's going to be hell on earth. Or worse. =)
--
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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