[csw-maintainers] ruby help

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Dec 15 04:17:25 CET 2008


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:10:42PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote:
> Well, as far as I've determined, the actual ruby package (and tcl/tk,
> but I don't play with that) is the same.  The documentation
> differences are in extra files generated by rdoc from the source files
> (which would indicate extra/different info collected/collated).  So
> supposedly, the input is identical, but the output differs.
> 
> I've run a diff across the files generated on both architectures to
> verify that the files installed (where not binary) are identical.  As
> best as I can tell, the _behaviour_ of rdoc differs on the two
> platforms, which to me indicates some odd little bug somewhere deep in
> the guts of it all (maybe in the rb_string or rb_hash somewhere?)...

oh. 
well, in that case, I'd say that it's fine to release, with a bug filed "oh
by the way the documentation is a bit off, in these areas, we dont
know why..."




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