Re: 1.8.x, YAML, and release management

On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:26 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> We are beyond code freeze but Matz has said he will allow patches for
> serious bugs.  If he's okay with it, it's literally a single byte  
> patch.

I'd support this fully.

I thought it was a 4 byte patch? "--- " at the start of the yaml  
stream. Am I mistaken?

> I have started a test harness which will let me test backwards
> compatibility between stable Ruby and my development Ruby, but I  
> haven't
> made a whole lot of progress on it in the last many weeks.  I know the
> YAML module still needs much help overall and I'm very glad for the
> refactoring and testing that matz, nobu, ocean, guy, akr and many  
> others
> have given.  My aging C skills wane.

I have a small package that I recently recovered from one of my older  
laptops that takes N ruby tarballs, unpacks them all, configures and  
builds them all, installs test/unit on all of them (since I was going  
back to 1.6 and earlier) and then runs a script of your choice  
against all of them. I still need to dust it off and polish it up,  
but I was planning on getting it out to the public soon. I know it  
has helped me with version testing for ZenWeb and RubyInline.