From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T22:33:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23623] Re: Meaning of RUBY_PLATFORM

Excerpts from rogerdpack's message of Fri May 29 16:14:22 +0300 2009:
> >> ��>> Rubinius::COMPILER
> >> => :gcc
> >> ��>> Rubinius::COMPILER_VERSION
> >> => "4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)"
> >>
> >>
> >> Thoughts on either of those?
> >
> > I'm not convinced that this functionality needs to be bundled with Ruby. You
> > could use the 'ohai' library to obtain a lot of system information.
> 
> ohai doesn't seem to give you the compiler version used to compile a
> specific version of ruby.  The kicker is that only a few people will
> ever use those constants (how often do you care what compiler was
> used?) but...it's vaguely useful I suppose.

Um, YAGNI? :)


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