I should have said that I was thinking of recommending 1.8.6-27RC2 http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=28426
This is what I've been using for some time. I agree that it is too soon to recommend the new mingw32 installers. Bret On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ethan <[email protected]> wrote: > The new 1.8.* RCs using the mingw32 compiler have an issue with DL > callbacks causing segfaults. WinClicker uses DL callbacks. > To demonstrate: > > > c:\Ruby187-249\bin\irb -r winClicker > >> w=WinClicker.new > => #<WinClicker:0x2db6070 @User32=#<DL::Handle:0x2db6028>> > >> w.getWindowHandle('') > ./winClicker.rb:244: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i386-mingw32] > > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual > way. > Please contact the application's support team for more information. > > I think it best to hold off on recommending this for now. I'm opening a bug > report for this today - meant to earlier, but it slipped my mind. > > -Ethan > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:31, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Just thought of something. >> >> I'm wondering if we should now recommend using 1.8.7-rc whatever. There >> was one bug with click_no_wait that only showed up in 1.8.7, but that is >> fixed now. And I think rubygems works better with 1.8.7 -- we have a lot of >> comments about how to upgrade rubygems that I think become non-issues if we >> recommend 1.8.7. >> >> Bret >> >> >> -- >> Bret Pettichord >> Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com >> >> Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog <http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog> >> Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wtr-development mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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