From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2010-03-19T06:29:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommended way to install Rubygems

On 19/03/10 at 06:01 +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 08:02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 18/03/10 at 23:31 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> >> All of the standard libraries are meant to be
> >> installed so you can count on having them.  By changing that decision,
> >> Debian has made it so you can't count on having them and that changes
> >> the rules of what you can do with Ruby.
> > 
> > If, maybe, the Ruby community fixed the fact that it's illegal to load
> > all of stdlib in the same process (because of OpenSSL vs GPL), we could
> > consider including ssl and readline in the default lib pkg. However, I don't
> > see how we will make Ruby depend on installing Tcl/Tk (because of the TK
> > bindings), or Emacs (because of the ruby mode for emacs). Note that even
> > ruby-full doesn't install the TK and elisp stuff.
> 
> Maybe Debian should switch to a non-GPL readline implementation for ruby as it's not illegal on OS X:
> 
> $ otool -L `gem which readline`
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin10.0/readline.bundle:
> 	/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/libruby.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.8.0, current version 1.8.7)
> 	/usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.11.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 123.0.0)
> 
> (Ignoring compatibility problems between readline and editline, of course)

It was pointed out that libedit doesn't support multibyte encodings yet,
unfortunately. But yes, it is a solution.
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