Ruby 1.8.6

Testing RSpec
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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

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On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David C. [email protected]
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 H.)

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 L.
AREA 17

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

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Hi David,

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

Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in

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On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:11 PM, David C. 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

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On 22 Aug 2011, at 14:10, Chuck R. 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

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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-