Feature #8601: Win32API.rb long life plan

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: windows
• Target version: -

[arton (Akio Tajima)]

Win32API.rb sits on ext/dl/win32/lib in the source tree.
But DL is deprecated on Ruby 2.0.1, so I'd like to move it from ext/dl/win32/lib to ext/win32/lib because the library is fundamental for Win32 platform.
Also it's required to fit Fiddler.

Attachment is the patched version of Win32API.rb for both DL and Fiddle based on mirich (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mirichi/20130629/p1).

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Wouldn't it be better to move it out of StdLib into separate gem?

[arton (Akio Tajima)]

No. Many of Windows users use ruby on enterprise environment that is disconnected from the network. So pre-installed library is required especially fundamentals such as Win32API.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

And lib/rubygems/user_interaction.rb and lib/securerandom.rb depend on it.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

lib/rubygems/user_interaction.rb has code to use io/console already.

# Bad habit branching by the version string...

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

• Category set to lib
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
• Target version set to 2.1.0

Hello Arton,

In rb-readline project we used DL be able to access Windows API due the warning/removal of Win32API.rb after 2.0

Park Heesob wrote some wrapper on top of DL, and a few days ago we received a pull request that uses Fiddle:

https://github.com/luislavena/rb-readline/pull/90

I would love get this sorted out in Ruby itself so we don't have to fake it.

Assigning to Usa for final decision.

Thank you.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

Win32API.rb should be removed at 2.1.0.

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) wrote:

Win32API.rb should be removed at 2.1.0.

Hello usa,

This doesn't go against what nobu and arton said?

I can modify both RubyGems and SecureRandom to use Fiddle (for newer versions) but not sure about the enterprise environments that have no access to gems.

Thank you.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Target version changed from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0

[ngoto (Naohisa Goto)]

• Related to Feature #5458: DL should be removed added

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Assignee changed from usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) to windows

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.2.0)

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Win32API.rb was removed from Ruby repo since Ruby 3.0 release.

The canonical repo is here: https://github.com/ruby/win32api.