As far as I can tell, win32ole is the only limiting thing when moving from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7. Having said that though I was able to get the modal test suite passing on 1.8.7 without doing any hacks. So +1 to make the minimum recommended version 1.8.7.
Bret had summed up the scenarios where win32ole is affected by the Ruby version as follows: 1. You need to recompile it when the compiler used by ruby changes. 2. You need to reapply the patch and then recompile whenever changes have been made to the original win32ole.c code. I'm not sure what other dependencies are broken though when moving to 1.9.x. Personally I just use 1.8.7 Cheers, Tim @90kts On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
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