[Rubygems-developers] Why RubyGem lib contains open-uri library??

[Jim Weirich]

On 12/11/05, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all. I am trying to solve problem with proxy that I wrote yesterday.
>
> I am reading the code and have one question: why RubyGem have own version
> open-uri lib?? Standart ruby distibution shipped with this library (at least
> on Windows).
>
> Could anybody shine some light on this question??

When we first started using open-uri, there was a bug in the library,
so we had to supply a patched version of it.

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