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
>>
>>
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