Well +1 for recommending minimum Ruby version is 1.8.7. We could make comment on watir.com/installation that 1.9.2 works sans modal dialog support perhaps?
Cheers, Tim @90kts On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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