From: chris <nospam@...>
Date: 2004-10-24T11:59:11+09:00
Subject: Re: serialport bug on w2k - will it get fixed?

PS: i ask because:

1) this has been seemingly known and outstanding for a long time;
is the serialport code dead?

2) based on the "feel" of the bug (since everthing else seems to work
in all other situation on all other platforms) it would appear to be
more of catching a one-line mistake somewhere instead of writing
or re-writing lines of code (and also because it used to work on the
previous version)  i'm hoping there can't be *that* many changes to
the source code in that area of ruby and I suspect that a 'guru' type
could find it maybe in minutes (?)

3) simply staying with ruby 1.8.0 for w2k people isn't much of a
solution and despite my attempts the bug appears assigned to nobody and
of concern to nobody.  i don't see anything showing a fix is already
in 1.8.1 final or planned otherwise

(no.  i don't have the skills to fix it myself unfortunately)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris" <nospam@spammersgoaway.fu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:48 PM
Subject: serialport bug on w2k - will it get fixed?


> using ruby 1.8.1 (the most recent 2
> or so release candidates..i haven't tried more)
> on w2k results in an error and crashes
> when using SerialPort
>
> someone else described the bug here:
>
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=560&group_id=61&atid=319
>
> the error does NOT occur when running the same
> code on the same machine with all other things equal
> except the use of ruby 1.8.0 instead.
>
> can/will this bug be fixed? is there somebody
> who can take a look?
>
> any thoughts?
>
>
>