Fastthread only needed on ruby <=1.8

hey… havent learned gemspec stuff yet, maybe someone who already knows
can make the fastthread dep optional?

its just kind of annoying, since ‘gem install mongrel’ always breaks on
1.9, even tho mongrel works fine,

plus ‘gem install mongrel’ doesnt even leave a local gem around to
manually hack/install

plus there doesnt appear to be a ‘gem fetch mongrel’

plus mongrel.org is some domain squatter peddling links to dog supplies

so the bottom line is the user has to google for mongrel, dl a tarball,
install manually

all cuz of some dep that isnt really a dep

cheers

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, cdr [email protected] wrote:

hey… havent learned gemspec stuff yet, maybe someone who already knows can make the fastthread dep optional?

fastthread is required for ruby version <= 1.8.5, which is most stable
one distributed across servers “in the wild” 1.8.6 with patchlevel
higher than 36 ships with it, but is not widely installed.

Latest code in stable branch make it optional.

its just kind of annoying, since ‘gem install mongrel’ always breaks on 1.9, even tho mongrel works fine,

Err, correction: if it compiles doesn’t meant it works properly. You
need to run the tests to see what it working and what isn’t.

plus ‘gem install mongrel’ doesnt even leave a local gem around to manually hack/install

Can you rephrase? Maybe what you need is grab the sources from
repository (svn) and hack yourself the need patches.

plus there doesnt appear to be a ‘gem fetch mongrel’

gem fetch is a RubyGems functionality, not mongrels.

plus mongrel.org is some domain squatter peddling links to dog supplies

funny, you need to take a lok at this book then:

http://rubyurl.com/EQlo

so the bottom line is the user has to google for mongrel, dl a tarball, install manually

Use SVN, is not powerful as Git (and all the git lovers) but works.

Patches are welcome

all cuz of some dep that isnt really a dep

Is just me, my bad english or you don’t spell english properly?


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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:18:49 -0300, “Luis L.” [email protected]
wrote:

fastthread is required for ruby version <= 1.8.5, which is most stable
one distributed across servers “in the wild” 1.8.6 with patchlevel
higher than 36 ships with it, but is not widely installed.

There are problems with 1.8.6’s version of fastthread until p111 or so.

-mental