Easily checking the upstream ruby svn revision.

[eloy.de.enige@…]

It would be a good thing imo if there was an easy way to check the revision of the upstream Ruby that the current MacRuby trunk is based on.

Ruby itself contains a RUBY_REVISION constant, but it's 0 for some reason. Maybe it would be an idea to make that work again?

It's important because people should be able to easily check whether or not a something works on a vanilla Ruby of the same revision as MacRuby, before creating tickets etc.

[vincent.isambart@…]

I already did it (commited by Laurent in revision 766), and it's available in the MACRUBY_REVISION constant. My patch even works with git (the git version on the trunk does not work correctly if the head is detached, but I already sent a patch to Laurent to fix it).

[eloy.de.enige@…]

Hey Vincent,

I'm aware of the change you mean, but that is to keep track of the MacRuby revision. What I want to be able to check is the revision of upstream Ruby that the current MacRuby is based on. At the moment I have no idea which Ruby 1.9 revision Laurent merged the last time, so it's very hard to check if a certain library runs on vanilla Ruby and was introduced by MacRuby.

This makes efficient bug reporting very hard.

- Eloy

PS: Did you send the patch to Laurent privately? Otherwise I can commit it too.

[vincent.isambart@…]

Get the correct revision from git when the head is detached

[vincent.isambart@…]

Sorry, read the message too quickly :P

The Ruby version MacRuby is based on is given by macruby -v: MacRuby version 0.4 (ruby 1.9.0 2008-06-03) [universal-darwin9.0, x86_64]

Looking at the history of the 1.9 repository, it seems to be between the revisions 16761 and 16799 of the Ruby repository.

For the small patch, I just attached it. Feel free to commit it when you have time.