ruby-dev summary 25261-25372

[Minero Aoki]

Hi all,

This is a summary of ruby-dev ML 25261-25372.


[ruby-dev:25291] GC problem assistant

Tanaka Akira posted a patch to record GC-related information:

* the total number of GC invocation
* the number of GC invocation, when an object is collected
* the location where the last GC is yielded

This patch might help you if you are interested in GC internals.

[ruby-dev:25292] tkutil is installed on no Tcl/Tk environment

Tanaka Akira reported that tkutil is installed in spite of Tcl/Tk
is not installed.

Hidetoshi Nagai, the maintainer of Ruby/Tk, answered that he considers
merging tkutil with tk, after Ruby 1.8.2 is released.

[ruby-dev:25362] NUL character handling in net/telnet.rb

U.Nakamura posted a patch of net/telnet. According to him,
RFC854 claims that NUL character must be ignored in telnet
protocol, so that net/telnet should ignore them.

Matz agreed with him and the patch is committed.

[ruby-dev:25369] FileUtils.copy_stream(ARGF, STDOUT)

Tanaka Akira complained that FileUtils.copy_stream(ARGF, STDOUT)
did not work. FileUtils.copy_stream had used #sysread/#syswrite
to access streams, so it had failed on ARGF (it only have #read/#write).

Minero Aoki, the maintainer of fileutils, changed implementation of
FileUtils.copy_stream to use #read and #write.


-- Minero Aoki
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[Hidetoshi NAGAI]

Hi,

From: Minero Aoki <[email protected]>
Subject: ruby-dev summary 25261-25372
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:58:18 +0900

[ruby-dev:25292] tkutil is installed on no Tcl/Tk environment

Tanaka Akira reported that tkutil is installed in spite of Tcl/Tk
is not installed.

Hidetoshi Nagai, the maintainer of Ruby/Tk, answered that he considers
merging tkutil with tk, after Ruby 1.8.2 is released.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
merging tcltklib with tk and tkutil

tkutil is already merged with tk.
The problem is that tkutil is compiled and installed without Tcl/Tk,
because tkutil does NOT depend on Tcl/Tk libraries.
If no Tcl/Tk, tcltklib must not be compiled.
And if without tcltklib, tk and tkutil can't be useful.
Although it means that tk and tkutil should not be installed if fail
to make tcltklib, there is no certain way to know whether tcltklib is
succeeded in compiling or not.
Possibly, merging tcltklib and tk (and tkutil) is the only solution
of this installation problem.