1.8.7 should be working currently with Watir indeed. If i remember correctly then there were also some obstacles in regarding of Ruby 1.9.2 and win32-api gem because it didn't have precompiled binaries for 1.9 yet. I opened up a ticket for Daniel Berger (authors of win32 gems) who said that he will start compiling for 1.9 too, but i'm afraid that it hasn't happened yet. Maybe he needs a little bit more pressure :P
Jarmo On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Tim Koopmans <tim.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > Wtr-development@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >
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