I do see your point, and that Watir is an open-source community project that we should all contribute to some degree; but documenting changes shouldn't be down to random users like myself to who happen to stumble upon often fundamental changes to the available methods. The best people in a position to maintain such a list are the ones actively developing and deprecating things; in essence, fully documenting what they've changed. If I had the knowledge and the time, I would gladly maintain such a repository; but I don't have that innate knowledge or clairvoyance of what the develops are doing. I'm with the masses in having to sift through numerous posts on Google Groups and Stack Overflow for why a long establish method now doesn't work in X version of Watir or Watir-webdriver. I'm all for progress, and really do fully respect the hardwork and dedication of the Watir developers out there; but I'll be brutally honest, just as I get to grips with one version of Watir, the whole ballgame changes a few months later often rendering my entire library of test scripts useless. Such deprecation just forces me to revert back to inefficient manual regression until I have time to investigate and re-learn methods due to lost familiarity. I'm off my soapbox now. I'll return back to the shadows, and quietly scour the posts to figure out how make all my legacy scripts work in webdriver.
On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:41:53 AM UTC+1, Željko Filipin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > There absolutely needs to be a clear and defined repository on the Watir > site of what methods are deprecated, and their current counterparts. > > I absolutely agree. Do you volunteer to maintain it? > > Željko > -- > filipin.eu > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
