Hello, Ethan, Congratulations, it looks very promising :)
Even though I understand it's a fork, what can we expect from now on? I liked most of the differences pointed in the Wiki, and I believe others will like them too, so why not make them to the main Watir project? Will there be a new user group to support the new project? Will you be able to incorporate future Watir features quickly? :) FK On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Watir people, > I am happy to announce the release of the Vapir library, which is a > fork of Watir and FireWatir. > > It is documented primarily at the github wiki at > http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/ > Documentation is sorely lacking at the moment, and improving it is my > highest priority, but putting the code out for people to use preceded > that. > > Links to other aspects of the forked project are listed at > http://vapir.org/ > > The API is in most cases the same, with some changes where I felt it > was best; these are enumerated at > http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/differences-from-watir-api > > It is a release candidate currently, and can be installed using the > --pre flag to rubygems (rubygems 1.3.6 is required; run gem update > --system if you are on an earlier version). > gem install --pre vapir-firefox > gem install --pre vapir-ie > > Major improvements over Watir are: > - Modal dialog API which is (mostly) consistent between IE and Firefox > - http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/modal-dialogs > - Unified codebase for both Firefox and IE interaction - basically, > everything that works in IE works in Firefox as well, which is not the > case with FireWatir. > - Many bug fixes and feature enhancements for issues in Watir's issue > tracker, which will be documented more thoroughly on the wiki in the > coming days. > > I would encourage any questions or discussion to go to Vapir's mailing > list, not Watir's. The forked project is intended to stand on its own, > separate from the Watir library due to a great deal of changes in the > codebase which make it to some degree (a small degree, hopefully) > incompatible. Support will be on Vapir's mailing list at > http://groups.google.com/group/vapir > > -Ethan > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe: > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com