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

[Jim Weirich]

On 12/11/05, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jim.
>
> As I thought.
>
> I am asking because I have fixed problem
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1289&group_id=126&atid=575
> but it require newest version of open-uri from Ruby CVS. (because of
> basic_authorization support)
>
> Is RubyCVS version of this file contains fix for your problem?? I mean is it
> possible to replace RubyGem version open-uri with Ruby current version of
> open-uri??

I don't think that would be a problem.

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