From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T07:02:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION


On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION"
>    on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:18:15 +0900, Eric Hodel  
> <drbrain@segment7.net> writes:
>
> |I use RUBY_ENGINE in a few places in RubyGems to detect Rubinius vs.
> |MRI to work around some Zlib issues (in both implementations) and to
> |install into a separate gem repository.
>
> Do you mean the new constant should _not_ be RUBY_ENGINE?  Or
> opposite?
>
> I'd be fond of RUBY_ENGINE or RUBY_RUNTIME.  Considering the
> possibility of full Ruby compiler, ENGINE might be better.
>
> 							matz.


+1 for RUBY_ENGINE

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