From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T23:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: What's "io/nonblock"?

On Apr 16, 2004, at 7:15 AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Friday, April 16, 2004, 10:50:55 PM, Gavin wrote:
>
>> Ara's "session" package tries to require 'io/nonblock' and fails on my
>> machine.  Google reveals nothing very instructive.  Anyone know what
>> it is?
>
> [...]
> installing io/wait
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/Projects/ruby18/ext/io/wait'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/Projects/ruby18/ext/io/wait'
>
> Problem, that.

A problem, perhaps, but io/nonblock.rb is installed from 
ext/io/wait/lib/, and is, as its name suggests, a plain Ruby file. It 
doesn't appear to require io/wait, either, so you should be okay with 
just installing it by itself to get 'session' working.

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Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Believer, Architect
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>