Hey all, It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord. Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace. Cheers, David
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:> Hey all, >Hello David,> It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord. >Good call. It is expected one last 1.8.6 release with bugfixes by the end of the year and will put the last stone (announced at RubyKaigi 2011 by Kirk Haines)>From RubyInstaller project we no longer promote it in the downloadssection and we haven''t perform any release of it since 1.8.6-p398 (p420 didn''t got any release from us) If I might suggest something, please adjust the gemspec of all rspec2 gems on your next release to be >= 1.8.7, that way will block the installation of the gems reducing the potential bug reports due 1.8.6 behavior. Regards, -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry
Hi David, Sounds good to me. I haven''t seen a 1.8.6 project since December last year. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://blog.sidu.in On 22 August 2011 07:41, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:> Hey all, > > It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord. > > Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace. > > Cheers, > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:11 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:> Hey all, > > It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord. > > Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace.All of my legacy projects and new projects are 1.9-only, so there is no objection from me. cr
On 22 Aug 2011, at 14:10, Chuck Remes wrote:> On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:11 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord. >> >> Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace. > > All of my legacy projects and new projects are 1.9-only, so there is no objection from me. > > cr >Agree, ditch it. As you pointed out David, it''s 3 years old. People will have to stick of older versions of rspec if they cannot move from 1.8.6 I''d imagine they are the minority. -- @robaldred
> It''s growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as > other libraries that rspec''s development environment relies on drop > support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), > I''d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, > but I''d like to hear from you before I cut the cord.As long as it supports 1.8.7 I''m good, and others who are using 1.8.6 can "hopefully" upgrade to 1.8.7 or just use some old version of rspec that works there still... -roger- -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.