From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T08:41:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Hacking the Ruby interpreter

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:04:50AM +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:
> I've got an idea for a hack^H^H^H^H enhancement to the interpreter that I'd
> like to try out. If it works, I was thinking of distributing it as a patch.

It might be possible to implement it in pure Ruby (look at evil.rb).

> If somebody wanted to use it, they'd have to d/l the Ruby tarball, apply
> the patch, build, and install.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable approach? Any catches I'm overlooking? Of
> course the license would be the same as Ruby's.
> 
> What version of Ruby should I use? I suppose the stable 1.8.1, unless of
> course 1.8.2 becomes production before I'm done, which is possible.

Better use the CVS stable (ruby_1_8) branch.

> My plan is to simply check out the v1_8_1 sources from CVS, make the
> changes, and make a patch with cvs diff. Is this the right approach?

Should work.
But don't expect many people to apply your patch... :-|

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