Re: tcltk: proposal to replace with 1_8 branch head

Hello, all: Currently there are at least 2 bug reports against ruby tcltk module which say that even some simple ruby scripts using ruby tcltk cause ruby crash: - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560053 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590503 Also I tried /usr/share/doc/ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.399/tk/sample/demos-en/widget but this also causes segfault. So it seem that currently Fedora's tk support on ruby is completely broken. We now use ruby 1.8.6.x branch, however looking at http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8_6/ext/tk/ ext/tk codes for 1.8.6.x branch are generally 2 years old and it looks that these codes are not so much maintained. So instead of using 1.8.6.x branch ext/tk, I propose to replace ext/tk tree with that of ruby_1_8 branch, i.e. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/ext/tk/ as suggested by one of the ext/tk tree authors: http://www.dumbo.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/nagai/RubyTk/?%BA%C7%BF%B7%C8%C7%A4%CER... (note: the above url is in Japanese). For now I tried to use 1.8.6p399 tarball + ext/tk directory of ruby_1_8 branch head and the trial rpms are: For F-14: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2180611 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/mtasaka/task_2180611/ For F-13: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2180618 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/mtasaka/task_2180618/ For F-12: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2180631 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/mtasaka/task_2180631/ It seems that with these rpms the above 2 bugs are fixed and /usr/share/doc/ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.399/tk/sample/demos-en/widget works ( /usr/share/doc/ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.399/tk/sample/demos-jp/widget has some easy iconv related mistakes and need fixing ). I want to push these rpms if there are no terrific errors on these rpms. Any suggestions or opinions are welcomed.