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Ruby 1.8.3 Preview Two #

by why in inspect

Matz is plowing toward the 1.8.3 release. He’s quietly released a preview on the Basecamp site, which I’d like to pass on here. Help us beat this up. Scare out the bugs in the new YAML. SOAP4R updates, particularly in regard to ASP.NET compatibility. WEBrick updates in its CGI module.

 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.3-preview2.tar.gz
 md5sum is 536b18046c1d51731953fd32de3df26e

Bugs can go to the Rubyforge tracker or the Ruby-Core list. We’re scavenging both.

Another preview is out:

 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.3-preview3.tar.gz
 md5sum: 6691ea6aaeeb1a51df587f714f1ae3e1
said on 16 Sep 2005 at 13:17

Should I mention the -Wall warnings coming from Syck again?

Lots of unused variable warnings, plus a couple new ones.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 13:27

OT, but your RSS feed has been acting very oddly for Safari RSS ever since you started on this tirade of flagrant hoodwinkery.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 13:55

only syck? even the core ruby files compile with quite a bit of warnings (with gcc’s -Wall), and IIRC win32.c has a lot of unused staff

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 14:10

Made, tested, installed on Mac OS.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 14:41

Hey, berger, I’m working on the -Wall stuff right now. I also just knocked out some of the tabs wierdness.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 14:56

riffraff, yes, I know. I’ve complained about it before, to no avail. I figure I can pick on the stdlib authors at least. ;)

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 15:28
...but coughs on rubygems:

hook /Users/robert/Desktop/rubygems-0.8.11/./post-install.rb failed:
uninitialized constant Gem::Builder::Package
said on 16 Sep 2005 at 15:33

Hate to violate DRY , but:

Can’t scare out the bugs if we don’t know what’s new.

ChangeLog is wayyy too verbose and detailed for folks NOT on the core list to understand the implications of each item. Something like NEWS would be really handy.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 15:48

Yeah! NEWS !

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 16:04

Matz has this on the list, Jay. I guess that doesn’t mean anything yet. On the bright side, his list is less than ten items long.

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 16:21

Robert: Are you implying that RubyGems is included in 1.8.3? That would be great!

said on 16 Sep 2005 at 18:38

Mirrored here.

said on 17 Sep 2005 at 02:28

Rubygems included? Er, not as far as I can see. That’s my own personal error when I try to install rubygems 0.8.11. I’m not hardcore enough for this!

said on 17 Sep 2005 at 03:01

Well, that was interesting. I re-built and re-installed ruby, then re-built and re-installed rubygems 0.8.11. Success!

said on 17 Sep 2005 at 03:21

Well, almost.

said on 18 Sep 2005 at 03:17

why, there’s a lot of ugly warnings in YAML now:

ruby -w -ryaml -e”puts ‘warnings suck’”

said on 18 Sep 2005 at 08:17

Robert, what is the problem you’re seeing? I installed RubyGems 0.8.11 fine on Linux with Ruby 1.8.3. Feel free to email me if you need help (first name @ chadfowler.com).

said on 18 Sep 2005 at 08:17

Robert, what is the problem you’re seeing? I installed RubyGems 0.8.11 fine on Linux with Ruby 1.8.3. Feel free to email me if you need help (first name @ chadfowler.com).

said on 19 Sep 2005 at 09:05

Ruby 1.8.3 will be released at Sep 21.

said on 19 Sep 2005 at 12:46

Hm, odd, my FTP sessions keep locking up after a hundred KB or so when I try to get preview3…

said on 19 Sep 2005 at 15:17

Got it, mirrored here.

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