[Rubygems-developers] Problems with RemoteInstaller

[Chad Fowler]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Mauricio Fernández wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:04:18PM +0100, Florian Frank wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hade some problems using the Rubygems RemoteInstaller. It  
>> requires a
>> 'rubygems/open-uri.rb', that contains a copy of the 'open-uri.rb'  
>> file,
>> that comes with Ruby. I think this was done to be compatible with  
>> older
>> versions of Ruby.
>
> It was a workaround for a bug in an older open-uri (as opposed to a  
> way to
> use open-uri in outdated Ruby setups).
>
>>      def open_uri_or_path(uri, &block)
>> -      require 'rubygems/open-uri'
>> +      begin
>> +        require 'open-uri'
>> +      rescue LoadError
>> +        require 'rubygems/open-uri'
>> +      end
>
> If you go that way, just
>   require 'open-uri'
> would make more sense.
>
>

Yes, true.  We should do some testing with various open-uri versions  
and perhaps change the minimum ruby version requirement for rubygems.

Chad