Thanks for the pointer to bug 320. It seems like we need more info. Everyone
here at Convio is happy with the fix in 1.6.5. -- we've been using 186-27rc2
for some time. But Alister said he didn't see it working for him.

Bret

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, that bug still seems to be present in the current 1.8.*
> mingw32 builds, too. But not 1.9.1.
> (first two are mswin32, rest are mingw32)
>
> C:\>c:\Ruby186-26\bin\ruby  -e "puts \"Does this work?\""
> Does this work?
>
> C:\>c:\Ruby186-27\bin\ruby  -e "puts \"Does this work?\""
> -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file
>
> C:\>c:\Ruby186-383\bin\ruby -e "puts \"Does this work?\""
> -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file
>
> C:\>c:\Ruby186-398\bin\ruby -e "puts \"Does this work?\""
> -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file
>
> C:\>c:\Ruby191-378\bin\ruby -e "puts \"Does this work?\""
> Does this work?
>
> Anyway, if watir 1.6.5 does correctly work around it, may not matter in any
> case.
>
> -Ethan
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:37, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought 1.8.6-27 (patchlevel 287) was the one with the bug that affected
>> click_no_wait.
>> That is what seems to be indicated by
>> http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-320 - but there are varying reports in
>> the comments there of whether or not it's still an issue with watir 1.6.5.
>>
>> I've been on 1.8.6-26 (patchlevel 111) until recently trying out the shiny
>> new mingw32 builds, which are nice except for that annoying DL bug (I've
>> switched from DL to FFI on my fork, so avoided that issue).
>>
>> -Ethan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:13, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <notet...@gmail.com> 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 <b...@pettichord.com>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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