Confused about tmail gem

Hi,

I use a ruby gem that depends on tmail. tmail has native extensions. I
want to use the gem with jruby, so I thought I’d replace tmail, as and
where. However…

Googling around, I notice that jruby has a fix against tmail, 3116.

So, is it possible to install tmail for jruby, and if so, how do you do
it?


Best,
Marc


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marc wrote:

Hi,

I use a ruby gem that depends on tmail. tmail has native extensions. I
want to use the gem with jruby, so I thought I’d replace tmail, as and
where. However…

Googling around, I notice that jruby has a fix against tmail, 3116.

So, is it possible to install tmail for jruby, and if so, how do you do
it?

We may only have fixed a bug relating to Rails that referenced tmail. If
it has a native extension we definitely wouldn’t support it. Can you
figure out what it’s using native code for?

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Charles Oliver N. said:

it?

We may only have fixed a bug relating to Rails that referenced tmail. If
it has a native extension we definitely wouldn’t support it. Can you
figure out what it’s using native code for?

After two glasses of good rioja blanco at 22:30?

It’s the usual C hieroglyphics. It’s parsing (it refers to scanning)
something - I guess a bag of bytes representing an email - with funky
refs to Japanese strings and ISO2022 (also Japanese?). It doesn’t look
very scary, about 600 lines. It basically seems to build and return a
couple of ruby objects.

However, I also spotted part of the build refs ENV[‘NORUBYEXT’], which
seems to allow a ‘echo Native extensions will be omitted’ build. Working
or red herring?

I don’t know anything about the Ruby/C interface, especially once you
get
down to rb_define_ funcs, so it would take me a while to get into the
details.

It’s damn ugly, though.

There’s a bunch of tests too, so it might be a candidate to de-C. Would
that be of interest?


Best,
Marc


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marc wrote:

There’s a bunch of tests too, so it might be a candidate to de-C. Would
that be of interest?

Yeah, I suppose we could look for references to it and first check if it
works without the C bits loaded, but if it seems like they’re needed or
helpful, it would definitely be a good project :slight_smile: And if it’s not much
code, it may be trivial to port.

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Charles Oliver N. said:

marc wrote:

There’s a bunch of tests too, so it might be a candidate to de-C. Would
that be of interest?

Yeah, I suppose we could look for references to it and first check if it
works without the C bits loaded, but if it seems like they’re needed or
helpful, it would definitely be a good project :slight_smile: And if it’s not much
code, it may be trivial to port.

According to: http://tmail.rubyforge.org/

tmail has an native ruby version, but nowhere do they describe how to
install it!

I’ve subscribed to their mailing list and asked how to install the
native
ruby version.


Best,
Marc


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