Hi all, The RubyInstaller project has essentially decided to deprecate support for Ruby 1.8.6, and 1.9.1 for good reason, see the thread here: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/d0a85c150c53790d?hl=en
In this vein, I'm putting out feelers on when we want to do something similar. I get the feeling that a lot of our users are still working with Ruby 1.8.6, though I've been focused on 1.8.7 for a while now and not had any major problems. We do have some work to get Watir working on 1.9.2, which I don't think is a major effort, colloquially I would guess that most of our users are not on 1.9.2, though there are several and that doesn't negate the need to move in that direction. I'd like to do a poll on the main Watir site and send out an email with Ruby versions and Watir version that everyone is using. If everyone's in agreement or if you have other questions to ask on the survey, Alister/Zeljko, do you guys want to take this on, or I could, either way. We need to ramp up support for Ruby 1.9.2 and it does become somewhat of a burden to support older versions, particularly without a CI environment. That being said, I'm not proposing we pull the plug on 1.8.6 tomorrow, but start to move in the direction of recommending 1.8.7 as a minimal platform, and spend out main focus on that and 1.9.2 & 1.9.3 which will come out sometime this year, Xmas, if the past is any indication. :) Anyhow, let me know what your thoughts are. Charley Baker Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list Wtr-development@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
