Bug #6652: broken Marshal compatibilities on Date and DateTime

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: 2.0.0

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

=begin
(({Date})) and (({DateTime})) dumped by 1.8 or earlier cannot be loaded by trunk.

$ /usr/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [universal-darwin11.0]

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-06-26 trunk 36225) [universal.x86_64-darwin11]

$ /usr/bin/ruby -rdate -e 'Marshal.dump(Date.today, STDOUT)' | ruby -rdate -e 'p Marshal.load(STDIN)'
-e:1:in load': class Date needs to have method _load' (TypeError)
from -e:1:in `'
bash: exit 1

$ /usr/bin/ruby -rdate -e 'Marshal.dump(DateTime.now, STDOUT)' | ruby -rdate -e 'p Marshal.load(STDIN)'
-e:1:in load': class DateTime needs to have method _load' (TypeError)
from -e:1:in `'
bash: exit 1

Patch attached.
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

already accepts if rational also accept