From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-12-26T03:07:25+09:00
Subject: Legacy support (Was: Base64 not there makes Rails 2.0.2 fail to load in 1.9.0)

On Dec 25, 2007, at 07:03 AM, Richard Kilmer wrote:
> Just re-built latest svn of 1.9.0 and base64.rb is removed.  Its  
> required in active_support (conversions.rb).  Do you think its worth  
> having all libraries that were removed from Ruby in 1.9.0 moved into  
> a "legacy gem" or something?  I am sure the rails guys will catch  
> this and remove the dependency since its not going to be supported  
> going forward, but this kind of thing may happen to other libraries.

I don't think a legacy gem should be created.  This doesn't encourage  
people to switch to the new way of doing things, whatever that is.   
(For base64, use [str].pack 'm*'.)

People have asked me to alias require_gem for RubyGems 1.x, and I will  
not.  Software depending on it won't get fixed if it stays around.