Bug #3671: DateTime dumped by Marshal from ruby 1.8 cannot be loaded by ruby 1.9

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-07-07 trunk 28561) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0]

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

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$ ruby -rdate -e 'Marshal.dump DateTime.now, $stdout' | ruby19 -rdate -e 'p Marshal.load $stdin.read'
-e:1:in load': class DateTime needs to have method _load' (TypeError)
from -e:1:in `'

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
$ ruby19 -v
ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-07-07 trunk 28561) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0]

Ruby 1.9 should implement DateTime._load in order to load from older versions
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version set to 2.0.0

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[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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this is not a matter of date.
rational or ruby.

$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -rrational -e 'Marshal.dump Rational(1,2), $stdout' | ./ruby -rrational -e 'p Marshal.load $stdin.read'
-e:1:in load': dump format error (ArgumentError) from -e:1:in '

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