Came up on Twitter, where Justin may have been trolling a little:
https://twitter.com/jstnkndy/status/798671298302017536
We have a `print_good` method, but not a `print_bad`, which seems a
little weird for Ruby -- opposite methods should be intuitive as Justin
is implying.
Anyway, I went with alias_method, thanks to the compelling argument at
https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide#alias-method
...since Metasploit is all about the singleton, and didn't want to risk
some unexpected scoping thing.
Also dang, we define the `print_` methods like fifty billion times!
Really should fix that some day.
This fixes a huge number of hard-to-detect runtime bugs
that occur when a default utf-8 string from one of these
libraries is passed into a method expecting ascii-8bit
In that order. #1476 was an attempt to salvage the functionality, but
sinn3r found some more bugs. So, undoing that, and undoing #1444 as
well.
First, do no harm. It's obvious we cannot be making sweeping changes in
libraries like this without a minimum of testing available. #1478 starts
to address that, by the way.
FixRM #7752
Brent Cook