sup talk - Aug 2007 - rake/hoe issues

Seems like Redwood::VERSION being set to ''svn'' isn''t
meeting some kind
of hoe version spec, so rake tasks are failing.

# rake gem
rake aborted!
Malformed version number string svn



Whenever I try to build sup from svn, the rakefile seems to be using sup
from my local gems repository rather than ./lib (within the build
directory). Since I had already installed a previous dev version, I had
to go edit the installed gem''s lib/sup.rb Redwood::VERSION before the
new gem would build.

It seems strange to me that I must have sup installed as a gem before I
can build the svn version.

-- 
Ian Taylor, Technical Assistant
Computer Science Computer Engineering
http://www.csce.uark.edu itaylor at uark.edu
University of Arkansas

Excerpts from Ian Taylor''s message of Wed Aug 08 17:16:34 -0700
2007:
> Seems like Redwood::VERSION being set to ''svn''
isn''t meeting some kind
> of hoe version spec, so rake tasks are failing.
Lame. I wanted to be able to distinguish SVN-built packages from actual
releases somehow.  Well I''ve set it to "0" in SVN, which is
at least
distinctive.
> Whenever I try to build sup from svn, the rakefile seems to be using
> sup from my local gems repository rather than ./lib (within the build
> directory).
Ok, I have an explicit load of "./lib/sup.rb" in the Rakefile now.
This
means you probably won''t be able to build outside of that directory,
but
that''s probably not a problem.


-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>