Hi Jarmo,

comments are inline.


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote:

> What do you mean about yanking these gems? Do you mean yanking all the
> versions?
>

Yes, that was the idea.


> I'm not sure this is a good idea - usually only particular versions of the
> gems are yanked because they have some critical problem. And if you only
> yank the last version, then you can still install the version before that.
> I'm pretty sure you can still use firewatir with some older version of
> Firefox successfully. There might be still some legacy projects depending
> on these particular gems for whatever reason.
>

After thinking more about it, I agree with you.


> A better idea would be to release a newer version of these gems with
> having a message similar to the lines of "this gem is now deprecated, use
> watir instead or if you really need this gem, then the previous version
> might work for you." when loading them.
>

+1. If nobody does it before me, I can do that.


> Do you see any problem with these gems? Is there a lot of confusion
> happening because of them?
>

I would not say a lot, but I remember seeing questions on mailing lists and
stack overflow from people that were using firewatir or safariwatir long
after they were deprecated.

Željko
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