Yes, a lot of what has changed in vapir can't easily be ported back to watir because it relies on changes to core functionality which are not currently desired in watir. I think that the core changes are also an improvement, but of course my confidence in my own code is greater than other peoples', and reviewing these changes is no small task.
I'd still like to see them merged back to watir, but, right now my time is devoted to adding functionality that is needed by current vapir users. I think that is a better expenditure of my time than trying to recreate improvements I have already made to watir - just recreating them to not rely on different improvements I have made, because nobody has time or inclination to review those improvements. So, for the moment, if people want the improvements that I have made and am continuing to make, I recommend trying out Vapir. -Ethan On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 18:01, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's the basic idea. There are a lot of changes, some in api between the > implementations. Obviously there are several fixes that we'd like to take > in, but the core contributors been busy lately with daily work. :) Speaking > for myself, this past week has been the first entire week I've been home in > the past couple of months. I'm hoping to have some more time and a bit of > balance coming up soon. I believe there's enough in the current trunk to > justify a release soon, likely including some additional fixes after we hash > through the current state of bugs and prioritize - for instance, Jarmo has > some pull requests that I still need to look at as well. > > I'll see if I can hook up with the other core contributors soon and have a > more official idea of where we stand. In the meantime, don't hesitate to > vote up issues in Jira, ask questions, and make suggestions. I'm hoping to > be on IRC more as well, so feel free to ping me there. > > Cheers, > > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com > > > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jarmo Pertman <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As i understood from the previous discussions then Ethan was unable to >> provide the changes made in Vapir as a small chunks so they could be >> merged into Watir's main branch in small steps and have some overview >> of the changes made. >> >> Ethan, can you shed some light on this one? >> >> Jarmo >> >> On Aug 6, 2:05 pm, Željko Filipin <zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Alister Scott <alister.sc...@gmail.com >> > >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Can we pick up the great work Ethan has done on making vapir work in >> > > later versions of ruby and apply this to Watir? >> > >> > You should send this to wtr-development, I think a lot of developers are >> not >> > monitoring this group. >> > >> > As far as I remember there was a discussion about merging Ethan's work, >> but >> > he made big architectural changes to the code so it could not be made >> easily >> > (so Etan made Vapir). I do not contribute to code, so my knowledge is >> > limited there. >> > >> > Željko >> >> -- >> 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<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
