On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Markus Roberts <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
> >> Anyone have an issue with me upgrade the rspec version required by
> >> Puppet's tests?
> >>
> >> 1.2.9 is out and seems to work fine, and someone *cough*Rein*cough*
> >> wrote tests that required it somehow, so now I'm stuck with a  
> conflict.
> >>
> >> I don't see any reason not to use more recent ones...
> >
> > Well, the latest one available in EPEL and in Fedora 12 is 1.2.7, so
> > requiring anything newer than that makes it difficult to run the  
> tests
> > on those platforms.
>
> AFAIK, the current version is available for all platforms (rspec is
> pure ruby--nothing in it is platform specific) so there should be
> nothing difficult about running the most current version on any
> platform.  All you should need to do is pull down the gem and go.  As
> this is something that you should be doing on a directly controlled
> machine (i.e., you won't be needing to install rspec on the clients or
> anything) I'm not seeing where this presents a difficulty.
>
> -- Markus
>
> From my perspective, for _development_ dependencies we shouldn't  
> have to wait on system packages being updated -- even for  
> dependencies with native code, as I think the use of RubyGems and  
> build tools are a reasonable requirement for a development box.
>
> Obviously this is not the case for production dependencies.


I agree, and that's been our position on development dependencies so  
far.

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