From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-29T16:47:54+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.5 problems? (Was: FileUtils.touch doesn't work)

On Nov 28, 2006, at 2125 , John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Nov 28, 2006, at 1055 , Paul Lutus wrote:
>>> Also, Ruby 1.8.5 has some problems. I personally recommend that  
>>> people stick
>>> with 1.8.4 unless they are intent on helping with the development  
>>> of Ruby
>>> itself. This is MERELY a PERSONAL OPINION.
>> What problems?
>> Have you filed bugs at the tracker:
>> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1698&group_id=426&func=browse
>> I'd really like to know so I can fix them.
>> I have had zero problems with 1.8.5.
>
> I don't know where the problem lies, but 1.8.5 as installed by  
> 1.8.5-21 of the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows fails  
> catastrophically with used with the IFMapper gem, which works fine  
> with 1.8.4-20, and there is a report that rubyw.exe fails generally.

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=5677&group_id=167&atid=715

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=5621&group_id=167&atid=715

rubyw.exe's failures seem to be io related, but there aren't any good  
reports of how it is broken.

It would be nice for somebody to give Curt some helpful feedback and  
good, minimal testcases.

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