On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:15 AM, David Chelimsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since the release of rspec-2.0, I've been following Rubygems' rational
> versioning [1] as closely as possible. Patch releases (2.4.x) have only had
> bug fixes, and minor releases (2.x.0) have had new features, but no
> (intentionally) backward incompatible changes, which should require a major
> (3.0) release.
>
> The autotest extension in rspec-2.0 prefixes the command it generates with
> 'bundle exec' if it sees a 'Gemfile' in the project root directory. It turns
> out that this is not universally helpful, so there was a request to have an
> opt-out.
>
> It also turns out that autotest has a bundler plugin that prefixes the
> command with 'bundle exec'. To use an autotest plugin, you just require it in
> a .autotest file in the project root. In this case:
>
> Â require 'autotest/bundler'
>
> I think the right thing to do is to rely on the autotest plugin, but I also
> think that this would require a 3.0 release, which feels a bit grand for this
> situation. My question to you is: do you think this warrants a major (3.0)
> release, or would it be an acceptable exception to the rule (assuming proper
> fanfare and documentation)?
Can't something be done here as a non-breaking change? I can see two things.
1) add the requested option, I think this is optional
2) in lib/autotest/rspec2.rb
def using_bundler?
File.exists?('./Gemfile') && !defined Autotest::Bundler # and
also check for the option if you decide to do #1
end
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