From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-18T08:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Loading ftools.rb automatically

On Jul 17, 2008, at 13:35 PM, bparanj@gmail.com wrote:
>> No such patch has been incorporated.  And ftools.rb had been
>> obsolete.
>
> It is not obsolete, http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/changes/ruby-187/lib/ftools.rb
>
> It is still in Ruby 1.8.7. Am I missing something here?

It is removed in ruby 1.9.  It cannot be removed in 1.8 as old  
programs depend on it.