On Apr 3, 2008, at 14:05 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > In message "Re: RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION" > on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:18:15 +0900, Eric Hodel > <drbrain / segment7.net> writes: > > |I use RUBY_ENGINE in a few places in RubyGems to detect Rubinius vs. > |MRI to work around some Zlib issues (in both implementations) and to > |install into a separate gem repository. > > Do you mean the new constant should _not_ be RUBY_ENGINE? Or > opposite? I don't have an opinion on RUBY_IMPLEMENTATION vs. RUBY_RUNTIME vs. RUBY_ENGINE. I was just commenting on one use I had for the constant.