On Nov 30, 2006, at 0800 , Chad Fowler wrote: > 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? > > There was an open-uri bug in an old Ruby distribution. The svn log > seems to indicate that it was Ruby 1.8.1: > > 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.
Great. I removed the reference in Gem::RemoteFetcher too. -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE! _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
