Issue #20775 has been reported by larskanis (Lars Kanis). ---------------------------------------- Feature #20775: Gemify win32-registry, win32-sspi and win32-resolv https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20775 * Author: larskanis (Lars Kanis) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- Many libraries bundled with ruby have been gemified and were separated into it's own repository. Not so far the 3 win32 libraries: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/tree/master/ext/win32/lib/win32 * win32/registry * win32/resolv * win32/sspi win32-registry ----------- I started with win32/registry in https://github.com/larskanis/win32-registry * separate all commit into it's own repository, * make it a gem, * add proper test cases to verify the core functions, * add a GHA workflow to run the tests, * add a single commit to change to consistent UTF-8 string output (see https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20774) My intention is that the repository can be moved to https://github.com/ruby/win32-registry and can be integrated it into ruby. However I think `win32/registry` should permanently stay a bundled gem, since the registry access is a core functionality on Windows, so it should always be in the core ruby distribution. win32-sspi ----------- Regarding `win32/sspi` I doubt that anyone is using this library. It was completely broken since ruby-3.0 until some days ago due to this fix: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/fc2f196cb8542a81bf271cdb90e0189c54321103 Nevertheless it makes sense to gemify it and to move it to it's own repository. I use a massively extended version of this file at work, maybe this can be included then. IMHO there's no need to keep it in the ruby distribution. win32-resolv --------- I don't have a strong opinion reg. `win32/resolv` and never had a reason to use this platform dependent API instead of the cross platform functions in the `socket` library. Maybe it had a use in the past. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/