[ruby-core:55300] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8488][Open] Refactor rbinstall.rb for maintenance, clarity, reuse

Issue #8488 has been reported by headius (Charles Nutter).

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Bug #8488: Refactor rbinstall.rb for maintenance, clarity, reuse
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8488

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Category: build
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.1dev
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


tool/rbinstall.rb is used to install many parts of Ruby at "make install" time, but it has grown to a rather cumbersome size. It also houses some logic that could/should be reused by other implementations, like the default gem installation.

I would like to do some cleanup and refactoring of this file to make it easier to maintain. I'd also like to factor out the default gems logic into a separate piece of code that can be used outside of rbinstall, for e.g. JRuby.

A number of folks have contributed to this file, but kou and nobu seem to be the primary maintainers.


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