[DRE-maint] sponsorship for libfastthread-ruby

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:02 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
> * Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu> [2008-03-25 09:22-0400]:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I have packaged up fastthread for ruby in package libfastthread-ruby. It
> > is lintian clean and is a pretty small package (one .so to install.) I
> > have packaged it up in preparation for packaging capistrano (either
> > myself or the person who filed #428879).
> > 
> > I am wondering if anyone would be willing to sponsor the upload?
> > 
> > Files (.deb, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, .dsc, .changes) can be found at:
> > 
> > http://www.d.umn.edu/~mzagrabe/debian/libfastthread-ruby/
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for your consideration,
> 
> Have you seen this thread:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2007-December/001865.html
> 
> which was thread hijacked, and then resumed here:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2007-December/001946.html
> 
> Specifically, I packaged this already, but then removed it from the svn
> repository because it turned out that fastthread was merged into ruby
> 1.8.6, and AFAICT since ruby 1.8.6 there is no use for this library
> anymore.

> However, maybe you have a justification that I am not aware of?

Two issues still exist:

1) Capistrano complains that fastthread is not installed. Perhaps a bug
could be filed against Capistrano.

2) The following email snippet was taken off of ruby-talk google group:

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/7933e7e987dad1c3

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Well, just when I thought I was out of the fastthread business... 


Okay, in brief: 


fastthread is a Ruby extension which re-implements the primitives in 
Ruby's thread.rb in C.  It was merged into 1.8.6, replacing the old 
thread.rb implementation, but the version that was merged had a couple 
serious bugs. 


So -- now I release fastthread 1.0, which is basically the Ruby 1.8.6 
version with the fixes applied.  You can use it as a hotfix for 1.8.6 
until the next 1.8.x version is released, and of course it should still 
work for speeding up older versions of 1.8 as well. 


Gems and source are available via the mongrel RubyForge project: 


http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1306 


Let me know if you guys have any more problems. 


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