Markus Roberts wrote:
>> 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.
Anyone who seriously does systems administration should realize that
GEM (and CPAN for that matter) sucks badly. A secondary package
system that doesn't play together with the normal one.
> 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.
It's not exactly encouraging occasional developers/patch writers to do
unit tests, since we will need to install a throw-away machine just to
run them.
/Bellman
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