From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-08T07:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible YAML bug with quoted symbols?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>> 
>>> I think it's a platform-specific solution -- that is, it only works on
>>> Ara's computer :-)  I get the same results you get, on my Mac and on
>>> a PC running Fedora.  I guess RHE must have patched Ruby in some way.
>> 
>> nope - rhe uses ruby 1.6.8!  this is ruby compiled from source:
>> 
>>  harp:~ > ruby --version
>>  ruby 1.8.4 (2006-01-12) [i686-linux]
>> 
>>  harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e'  p YAML.load(YAML.dump( :"foo bar" ))  '
>>  :"foo bar"
>> 
>> what's yours?
>
>  $ ruby -r yaml -ve 'p YAML.load(YAML.dump( :"foo bar" ))'
>  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
>  :"\"foo bar\""
>
> Interesting.  What's the 2006-01-12 1.8.4?

ah.  i guess you guys don't run latest stable?  that 1.8.4 is getting old!

;-)

i've always use the latest stable compiled from source.  obviously i haven't
compiled for a bit - but this is just a development machine.

might want to try to compile a new ruby up and (before installing dear
readers!) see if that fixes issues.  don't forget to re-compile any binary
exts!

regards.


-a
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