From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2003-02-22T13:02:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedding Ruby in C code

On Fri 21 Feb 2003 at 16:40:47 +0900, Edward Wilson wrote:

> > -- [ Guy Decoux ] wrote --
> >  rb_protect() is described in the pickaxe (chapter "Ruby C Language API"),
> >  and also in eval.c
> 
> Does RedHat 8.0 hide eval.c, or worse, do they hack up their own
> version of Ruby?

Nothing so nefarious.

eval.c is part of the source code, so it's in the source RPM, not the
binary RPM.

That said, there are other issues with the RPM, such as the packager's
decision to have libraries go into /usr/lib/site_ruby, rather than
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby, which would make it analogous with the Perl and
Python RPMs.

I've made my own RPMs, which you can get from:

	http://www.caliban.org/files/redhat/

These are backwards-compatible with the Red Hat ones, but include extra
niceties, such as readline completion for irb.

Ian
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