On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM, lacton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, I helped a user that was having issues with buildr. One WAR > file had some superfluous files, though they were explicitly excluded > in the buildfile, and one JAR file had missing files because the > 'merge' method was not having any effect. After much head scratching, > it turned out that this user was using an old distro (ubuntu feisty) > that came bundled with ruby 1.8.5 instead of 1.8.6 and that ZIP files > handling is broken or at least different in that old version. > > After removing the distro's ruby packages and installing ruby 1.8.6 > from sources, everything started to work as expected. > > Do you think we should state on the web site that buildr requires ruby > 1.8.6 or later?
I don't know if it works with 1.8.7 either. I think it would be easier instead to document the tested configurations: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BUILDR/Tested+Environments Assaf > > Lacton >
