From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-06-17T07:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Inclusion of bug #9376 in 1.8.6 branch

Hi.

Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> Would it be possible to include the fix for bug #9376 in 1.8.6 ? It is not 
> fixed in 
>
> [~]% ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i686-linux]
>   

Hmm.

This is obviously an API change so backporting to elder ruby should be
done carefully. Can you think of any side-effects with it?  In this case
there seems to be no roundabout way in current 1.8.6, so including the
fix is quite possible, as long as it is harmless.