Oh, right, forgot to add one more thing - maybe if these gem problems go away then we can safely recommend 1.9.2 too, but just without modal dialogs support at the moment. I think that majority of users don't deal with THE modal dialogs anyway. This is of course just an assumption and i think that you all know what assumptions generally end up being :P What do you think?
Jarmo On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote: > 1.8.7 should be working currently with Watir indeed. > > If i remember correctly then there were also some obstacles in regarding of > Ruby 1.9.2 and win32-api gem because it didn't have precompiled binaries for > 1.9 yet. I opened up a ticket for Daniel Berger (authors of win32 gems) who > said that he will start compiling for 1.9 too, but i'm afraid that it hasn't > happened yet. Maybe he needs a little bit more pressure :P > > Jarmo > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Tim Koopmans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as I can tell, win32ole is the only limiting thing when moving >> from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7. Having said that though I was able to get the modal >> test suite passing on 1.8.7 without doing any hacks. So +1 to make the >> minimum recommended version 1.8.7. >> >> Bret had summed up the scenarios where win32ole is affected by the Ruby >> version as follows: >> 1. You need to recompile it when the compiler used by ruby changes. >> 2. You need to reapply the patch and then recompile whenever changes have >> been made to the original win32ole.c code. >> >> I'm not sure what other dependencies are broken though when moving to >> 1.9.x. Personally I just use 1.8.7 >> >> Cheers, >> Tim >> >> @90kts >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Charley Baker >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The RubyInstaller project has essentially decided to deprecate >>> support for Ruby 1.8.6, and 1.9.1 for good reason, see the thread >>> here: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/d0a85c150c53790d?hl=en >>> >>> In this vein, I'm putting out feelers on when we want to do something >>> similar. I get the feeling that a lot of our users are still working >>> with Ruby 1.8.6, though I've been focused on 1.8.7 for a while now and >>> not had any major problems. We do have some work to get Watir working >>> on 1.9.2, which I don't think is a major effort, colloquially I would >>> guess that most of our users are not on 1.9.2, though there are >>> several and that doesn't negate the need to move in that direction. >>> >>> I'd like to do a poll on the main Watir site and send out an email >>> with Ruby versions and Watir version that everyone is using. If >>> everyone's in agreement or if you have other questions to ask on the >>> survey, Alister/Zeljko, do you guys want to take this on, or I could, >>> either way. >>> >>> We need to ramp up support for Ruby 1.9.2 and it does become somewhat >>> of a burden to support older versions, particularly without a CI >>> environment. That being said, I'm not proposing we pull the plug on >>> 1.8.6 tomorrow, but start to move in the direction of recommending >>> 1.8.7 as a minimal platform, and spend out main focus on that and >>> 1.9.2 & 1.9.3 which will come out sometime this year, Xmas, if the >>> past is any indication. :) >>> >>> Anyhow, let me know what your thoughts are. >>> >>> Charley Baker >>> Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wtr-development mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wtr-development mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >> > >
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