Re: Tempfile#unlink changes in Ruby 1.9.1-p152

[Niels Ganser <niels@herimedia.com>]

Eric,

2009/7/19 Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
>
> Thanks for the heads up, I just posted my thoughts on Redmine about this.
> Hopefully the Ruby team is willing to fix it.

Thanks for putting this to their attention.

I've updated the issue with links to the original discussion on
ruby-core in 2004. Both the its author and matz decided the patch, as
recently introduced, wouldn't be a good idea:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-core/2848?2697-2915+split-mode-vertical.

> If we have to go this route, what about just explicitly unlinking it?
> I'm not going to go as far as undefining the finalizer that Tempfile
> defines since the finalizer checks if the file exists before unlinking
> anyways.

I don't think any change in the rack codebase will be necessary as I
fully expect this to be fixed in Ruby before the next release.
Considering that many people are even still using 1.8 I don't think
too many compile from trunk or any other svn branch for that matter.
Those who do would probably check the list here when in trouble, no?

Cheers,
Niels