From: Mac <webrg.ruby-talk.com@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T05:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: TkEntry with { (left brace) characters

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> From: Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
> Subject: Re: TkEntry with { (left brace) characters
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 04:22:49 +0900
> Message-ID: <20040209.042243.74736283.nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
> 
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> However, I remain ambivalence about backporting to Ruby 1.8.x. 
> Although the patch fixes some problems (e.g. A validatecommand 
> of TkEntry cannot acquire a right string when the entry box has 
> a string which has unbalanced braces such as "a {"), Ruby/Tk 
> loses backward compatibility. 
> 
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> Your comments on the patch are welcome.

I don't mind if you dont' backport the patch. I went ahead with 1.8.1 
and applied the patch (final version :) ) to that. I figured if I was 
going to recompile I'd have the next stable release. I need to retest 
anyway. Might as well get caught up.

I do think that anyone that coded around the escaped left brace could be 
just as surprised when they move on to a new version as they would have 
been if they found it in a supposedly "same" version.

But I might not backport it just because of needing to draw a line 
somewhere. How many versions back would you go with a backport? 1.8.0? 
1.6.1? ??? I'd just leave well enough alone and make sure it's documented.

Mac