From: "Haase, Konstantin" <Konstantin.Haase@...>
Date: 2011-05-26T17:05:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36486] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4784] Import the JSON library

RubyGems != Ruby

On May 26, 2011, at 09:56 , Lazaridis Ilias wrote:

> 
> Issue #4784 has been updated by Lazaridis Ilias.
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> 
> Sakuro OZAWA wrote:
>> $ ls path-to/ruby/1.9.1/json*
>> path-to/ruby/1.9.1/json.rb
>> 
>> path-to/ruby/1.9.1/json:
>> add/  common.rb  ext.rb  version.rb
>> 
>>> dm-serializer requires json 1.4.6
>> 
>> this means dm-serializer uses JSON *gem* for JSON parsing so it can run both on 1.8 (where json library is not bundled) and 1.9.
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> Actually this means that although ruby 1.9 *could* resolve the requirement, it does not do so.
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> Solution could be:
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> * Either ruby should signal "I have json code similar to gem x.x.x", or 
> * the gem system should be told that 1.9 contains code which is equal to "json x.x.x"
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>> You must distinguish gem from bundled library.
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> I could even do this (although I've another technical view of this), but what about a simple user?
> 
> You should really take care of all this.
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> It's possibly as simple as asking the json maintainer to give access to the repos, thus the gems binaries can be build:
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> https://github.com/flori/json/issues/75
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> Feature #4784: Import the JSON library
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4784
> 
> Author: Lazaridis Ilias
> Status: Rejected
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: 
> Category: ext
> Target version: 
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> 
> I've personally lost several hours with the JSON gem (and was still not able to resolve the problem in a way that is acceptable for end-users).
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> The JSON library is an important library.
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> It should be included into ruby 1.9, thus it works "out-of-the-box" on all platforms.
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> If this is for any reason not possible, then there should be some kind of "caretaker".
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> This means that one ruby developer takes care about the sanity of the JSON gem.
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> This could be e.g. the developer who is responsible for YAML (as yaml/json are somehow related).
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