From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-08-10T05:56:25+09:00
Subject: irb and 1.8.0


How do I get irb working nicely in 1.8.0?

The irb that gets built from the current tarball says:

   Version irb 0.9(02/07/03) is old.

Also, it does not use readline. In fact ext/readline doesn't even get built.

My experience with ruby up through ruby-1.7.3 has been that irb and 
readline work out of the box, assuming you've got the readline lib and 
headers installed.

What's different with 1.8? Why isn't a current version of irb included? 
Why isn't readline built, if the lib and headers are available?

(I'm using linux-mdk9.1.)