Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-11-20 10:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > Hey all, > looking at > http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini > I see that there is a ruby-json package: > @ ruby-json > sdesc: "Ruby JSON module" > ... > but ruby does not currently depend on ruby-json: > @ ruby > sdesc: "Interpreted o

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Hey all, looking at http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini I see that there is a ruby-json package: @ ruby-json sdesc: "Ruby JSON module" ... but ruby does not currently depend on ruby-json: @ ruby sdesc: "Interpreted object-oriented scripting language" ... requires: cygwin

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
Hi Ken. I see your point For me, the foremost issue is to confirm, whether this is indeed a bug in the Cygwin package for Ruby, or not, and my posting on the mailing list was mainly intended to draw attention from the Ruby package maintainers (although other comments are, of course, also h

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/20/2018 10:39 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: > Hi Ken, > > actually, the page regarding the gem list for the Ruby version in question > (the one we have at Cygwin) is > > https://stdgems.org/2.3.6/ > > but this page too lists json as "default gem". > > The page https://stdgems.org/ then

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
Hi Ken, actually, the page regarding the gem list for the Ruby version in question (the one we have at Cygwin) is https://stdgems.org/2.3.6/ but this page too lists json as "default gem". The page https://stdgems.org/ then defines this term as: "Default gems: These gems are part of Ruby

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
For modules which, according to the Ruby-Docs, are supposed to be in the stdlib, no Gem installation must be necessary. With other words: A Ruby application which only uses features from the stdlib, should run on any other Ruby installation (of compatible version) without the requirement of ins

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-11-20 06:13, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/20/2018 3:41 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: >> Since I updated Ruby to 2.3.6, the standard library json is missing: >> ruby -e 'require "json"' >> /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': >> cannot load such file -- json (L

Re: Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/20/2018 3:41 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: > Since I updated Ruby to 2.3.6, the standard library json is missing: > > ruby -e 'require "json"' > /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': > cannot load such file -- json (LoadError) > from /usr/share/ruby

Bug: No json support anymore in Ruby 2.3.6

2018-11-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
Since I updated Ruby to 2.3.6, the standard library json is missing: ruby -e 'require "json"' /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- json (LoadError) from /usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'