On 11/30/06, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When using rubygems with a program that has (or will) be using the > built-in open-uri, rubygems causes an infinite loop because > Kernel#open is redefined twice. > > I'd like to prevent the namespace collision. > > Is rubygems/open-uri still necessary? What was the issue with the > rubygems open-uri? > > Can we just ditch open-uri and use net/http to keep rubygems working > on older versions? > > --
There was an open-uri bug in an old Ruby distribution. The svn log seems to indicate that it was Ruby 1.8.1: r539 | chadfowler | 2004-09-15 22:31:11 -0500 (Wed, 15 Sep 2004) | 2 lines Added our own copy of open-uri.rb so we could get around bugs in the old one until 1.8.2 of ruby comes out I think we're OK just removing it. If someone's OK running ruby 1.8.1, they're probably OK with running an old RubyGems too :) I've removed it from svn. Chad _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
