On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:55:15AM +0900, Cameron McBride wrote:
> > Did you find it?
> > I would also like to get it.
> 
> I haven't found anything "new", but I came across this: 
>     http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/shim/
> 
> It's got a link to a tarball on it: 
>     http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/shim/shim.tar.gz?tarball=1
I did not notice it offers tarballs.
> 
> Haven't installed it, as I didn't find this immediately (so I
> couldn't) and I other projects dominated my time.  haven't made it
> back this way, yet.
> 
> let me know if it works for you.

I can compile it at least.
I also used a small patch to make packaging possible.

It contains the str* extensions that I wanted ans also *xml and yaml so
it should be fine for me.

A few of the included tests fail but I guess that is because of
not-yet implemented features.

Thanks 

Michal Suchanek

--- ruby16/install.rb   Tue Jan 28 13:07:13 2003
+++ ruby-shim16_18/install.rb   Fri Sep 24 21:02:32 2004
@@ -665,10 +665,12 @@

   def install_dir_ext_main( rel )
     #install_files allext('.'), config('so-dir') + '/' + rel, 0555
+    sitelibdir = "" + @options['install-prefix'] + config('rb-dir')
+    sitearchdir = "" + @options['install-prefix'] + config('so-dir')
     command sprintf('%s sitelibdir=%s sitearchdir=%s site-install',
                    config('make-prog'),
-                   config('rb-dir'),
-                   config('so-dir'))
+                   sitelibdir,
+                   sitearchdir)
   end

   def install_dir_data( rel )