[TxMt] Re: Bundle support plist broken on Mojave

[Philippe Huibonhoa]

Does Mojave still have Ruby 1.8 available?  I have bundle files
referencing /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
but that directory does not exist.  I'm not sure how to proceed, since this
does break some functionality.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:29 AM Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2018, at 09:13, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
>
> The problem is that many bundle commands need ruby 1.8, so the bundle
> support code needs to remain compatible with 1.8 as well.
>
> This is support code has been written by a dozen different people over
> several years, I have no plans of rewriting it all to be compatible with
> both ruby 1.8 and 2.x, which in itself is not a fun excercise, not even
> sure we can make the plist extension compatible with both versions of ruby
> without switching to a version written entirely in ruby.
>
> Understandable. I’ve been wanting to completely re-implement the support
> code with support for 2.0 now for a while. But I’ve never prioritized it.
>
> My advice: If you want to use ruby 2.x for your custom commands, don’t use
> the support code.
>
> Yeah, in fact, most of my commands are written in Ruby 2.0 but one of them
> is using Ruby 1.8 to be able to use the completion window.
>
> In this case I see now that TextMate.detach is simple enough to copy to
> the bundle and remove the dependency on TextMate::UI.
>
> In retrospect we probably shouldn’t have made a “shared support”
> directory, at least not without much much stricter discipline, as now we
> have a ton of legacy stuff that is pretty difficult to get rid of, because
> we have no idea about which third party bundles rely on it.
>
> The support code, at least the Ruby code, could be implemented as a
> separate gem. Then it could be versioned like any other gem. I have a
> bundle [1] where the whole Support directory is organized as a Ruby gem. It
> uses Bundler and several gems as dependencies. The gems are bundled
> directly in the Support directory and included in the Git repository. This
> works out quite nicely.
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/GitLab.tmbundle/tree/master/Support
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>
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