From: Sam Ruby <rubys@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T09:13:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Rexml and Ruby 1.9

Sean E. Russell wrote:
> On Monday 31 December 2007, Sam Ruby wrote:
>> Ticket: http://www.germane-software.com/projects/rexml/ticket/131
>>
>> Patch:
>> http://www.germane-software.com/projects/rexml/attachment/ticket/131/rexml1
>> 9.diff
>>
>> Discuss: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/12/31/Porting-REXML-to-Ruby-1-9
>>
>> I'd like to see this checked into http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk
>>
>> - Sam Ruby
> 
> I see it, and I have the patch; and I've seen the other patches you've made.  
> Thanks.  Real Work has been demanding for the past few months, and I haven't 
> used my personal computer for anything other than email in that time.  Sorry 
> about the delay.

Matz checked in the code portion of the changes to Ruby 1.9's trunk:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=14826

I have other changes in mind, as as long as Matz is willing, I plan to 
continue to make them available for incorporation.

If you are willing, I would be glad to also keep a REXML project 
repository in synch (i.e., one that contains both the code and the 
tests).  If that is not something that you are comfortable with, I 
completely understand, it just means that there will be a greater delta 
for you to reconcile when you once again have the time.

In any case, as REXML is curiously absent from 
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/test/, it occurs to me that as 
nobody else is including it in their regression tests, I might as well 
include it in mine.  I have a job that will run a few times a day on my 
machine, building ruby 1.9 from scratch, and then running the unit tests 
from a number of projects I care about against it, notifying me of any 
failures.  REXML is included in that, as well as a number of projects 
that build upon REXML.

- Sam Ruby