Forum: RSpec ruby 1.8.6

Hey all,

It's growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as 
other libraries that rspec's development environment relies on drop 
support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), 
I'd like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, 
but I'd like to hear from you before I cut the cord.

Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace.

Cheers,
David

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hey all,
>

Hello David,

> It's growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other 
libraries that rspec's development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 
1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I'd like to drop support for 
Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I'd like to hear from you before I 
cut the cord.
>

Good call. It is expected one last 1.8.6 release with bugfixes by the
end of the year and will put the last stone (announced at RubyKaigi
2011 by Kirk Haines)

>From RubyInstaller project we no longer promote it in the downloads
section and we haven't perform any release of it since 1.8.6-p398
(p420 didn't got any release from us)

If I might suggest something, please adjust the gemspec of all rspec2
gems on your next release to be >= 1.8.7, that way will block the
installation of the gems reducing the potential bug reports due 1.8.6
behavior.

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Hi David,

Sounds good to me. I haven't seen a 1.8.6 project since December last 
year.

Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
http://blog.sidu.in

On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:11 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> It's growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as other 
libraries that rspec's development environment relies on drop support. Noting that 
1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008), I'd like to drop support for 
Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec, but I'd like to hear from you before I 
cut the cord.
>
> Please raise your objections now or forever hold your peace.

All of my legacy projects and new projects are 1.9-only, so there is no 
objection from me.

cr

On 22 Aug 2011, at 14:10, Chuck Remes wrote:

> cr
>

Agree, ditch it.
As you pointed out David, it's 3 years old.
People will have to stick of older versions of rspec if they cannot move 
from 1.8.6
I'd imagine they are the minority.

--
@robaldred

> It's growing increasingly difficult for RSpec to support Ruby 1.8.6 as
> other libraries that rspec's development environment relies on drop
> support. Noting that 1.8.7 was released over three years ago (6/1/2008),
> I'd like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 for future versions of RSpec,
> but I'd like to hear from you before I cut the cord.

As long as it supports 1.8.7 I'm good, and others who are using 1.8.6 
can "hopefully" upgrade to 1.8.7 or just use some old version of rspec 
that works there still...
-roger-