From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T02:44:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/9/07, Kashia Buch <kashia.buch@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> Reason:  Tattle uses Config::CONFIG, which is where the ruby was
> >> compiled in, not what it is running on.
> >
> > Its still darwin 8, so gems for your version of ruby should work ok with
> > gems compiled for any other darwin 8 version.  If you built for darwin 8
> > but your uname -a now reported AIX that would be cause for alarm.
>
> of course it works, how would you live without ruby.  ;)
>
> My point was merely that I was spreading false information, and others
> might
> too.  :P

You're right (both that the report was wrong and that it's probably an
edge case).  I personally think we can live with it for now, but it
might be worth rethinking our approach at some point.  Just for the
record, we didn't think using Config::CONFIG was particularly clever
:)

Chad