From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T22:02:48+09:00
Subject: Re: help from *nix ruby users

Thanks.

How would I normally determine if something is deprecated in ruby? After 
your email, I tried "ruby -w -e 'p PLATFORM'" but didn't see any 
warnings of deprecation (if that would be one way to check).

Thanks,
Nick

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:25:54 +0900,
>Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote in [ruby-talk:108359]:
>  
>
>>Is there any difference between
>>
>>ruby -r rbconfig -e 'p Config::CONFIG["arch"]'
>>
>>and
>>
>>ruby -e 'p PLATFORM'
>>    
>>
>
>Almostly equal.  But they can be different while cross
>compiling.
>
>Although many extension libraries (even ext/extmk.rb and
>lib/mkmf.rb) uses RUBY_PLATFORM in their extconf.rb to determin
>the target platform, I consider it shouldn't.
>
>Moreover, PLATFORM, VERSION and RELEASE_DATE have been
>deprecated long ago, so never use them.
>
>  
>