[#31647] [Backport #3666] Backport of r26311 (Bug #2587) — Luis Lavena <redmine@...>

Backport #3666: Backport of r26311 (Bug #2587)

13 messages 2010/08/07

[#31666] [Bug #3677] unable to run certain gem binaries' in windows 7 — Roger Pack <redmine@...>

Bug #3677: unable to run certain gem binaries' in windows 7

10 messages 2010/08/10

[#31676] [Backport #3680] Splatting calls to_ary instead of to_a in some cases — Tomas Matousek <redmine@...>

Backport #3680: Splatting calls to_ary instead of to_a in some cases

10 messages 2010/08/11

[#31681] [Bug #3683] getgrnam on computer with NIS group (+)? — Rocky Bernstein <redmine@...>

Bug #3683: getgrnam on computer with NIS group (+)?

13 messages 2010/08/11

[#31843] Garbage Collection Question — Asher <asher@...>

This question is no doubt a function of my own lack of understanding, but I think that asking it will at least help some other folks see what's going on with the internals during garbage collection.

17 messages 2010/08/25
[#31861] Re: Garbage Collection Question — Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...> 2010/08/26

> The question in short: when an object goes out of scope and has no

[#31862] Re: Garbage Collection Question — Asher <asher@...> 2010/08/26

Right - so how does a pointer ever get off the stack?

[#31873] Re: Garbage Collection Question — Kurt Stephens <ks@...> 2010/08/27

On 8/26/10 11:51 AM, Asher wrote:

[#31894] Re: Garbage Collection Question — Asher <asher@...> 2010/08/27

I very much appreciate the response, and this is helpful in describing the narrative, but it's still a few steps behind my question - but it may very well have clarified some points that help us get there.

[#31896] Re: Garbage Collection Question — Evan Phoenix <evan@...> 2010/08/27

You have introduced something called a "root node" without defining it. What do you mean by this?

[#31885] Avoiding $LOAD_PATH pollution — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

Last year Nobu asked me to propose an API for adding an object to

21 messages 2010/08/27

[#31947] not use system for default encoding — Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>

It strikes me as a bit "scary" to use system locale settings to

19 messages 2010/08/30

[#31971] Change Ruby's License to BSDL + Ruby's dual license — "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>

Ruby's License will change to BSDL + Ruby's dual license

16 messages 2010/08/31

[ruby-core:31628] Re: Release engineering status of 1.9.2-p0

From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-05 18:47:24 UTC
List: ruby-core #31628
2010/8/4 Yusuke ENDOH <mame@tsg.ne.jp>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm reporting the status of 1.9.2-p0 release which has been planned at
> early this month.
>
>
> 1) backports from trunk into ruby_1_9_2
> 2) busyness of the release manager
>
>
> (1) Currently, we have roughly backported patches that was committed by
> 23 Jul.
> In principle, I will no longer backport any patch for 1.9.2-p0.
>
> A brand-new patch should have a certain amount of "soak time" in trunk.
> *Almost all* patches that have just been committed into trunk are not
> stable yet. 澣hey may often cause another issue, or may not been fixed
> completely. 滷ackporting such patches will never stabilize ruby_1_9_2
> branch. 潛n fact, I actually had some trouble about one patch that
> requires another patch that requires another patch... (about 5 times).
> I think this lesson (soak time) should be applied in the next release.
>
> Meanwhile in this time, I decide that I will backport only patches that
> meat any following conditions:
>
>  SEGV or [BUG] problem on supported platform
>  build failure on supported or besteffort platform

Bug #3637 block certain versions of mingw32 under cross-compilation
(mingw and mingw-64 projects)

r28835 fixed this.

I'm building current branch with GCC 4.5.0 for RubyInstaller, will
provide any feedback on build failures that will require adjustments.

Thank you.
-- 
Luis Lavena
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