I just decided to optimistically push the changes, so they should be on master and hopefully in tonight's nightly build. We can still change things, so please try it out if you have concerns.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Logan Barnett<[email protected]> wrote: >> So long as we can still get to stdlib without doing anything to the load >> path we should be ok. That said I know Monkeybars by default clears the load >> path before building its own, which doesn't include stdlib. This was done to >> ensure that gems and other libs invoked were done for the project and not >> your environment, because once distributed your environment wouldn't come >> along with the app (: > > Clearing the load path could complicate it. The main breaking change > is that Ruby stdlib would not be accessible at the root of class > loader resources...but would now be available as the resources under > "/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.8". It could potentially break any > environments where load path was not being used, but class path / > classloader resources were used to load stdlib from the root of > classloader resources. > > Let me know what your test results are. > > - Charlie > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
