[BioRuby] moving to Ruby 1.8?

[Moses Hohman]

I am very familiar with CVS branching (we've been using them for 
several releases here at work, and I think we've worked out the kinks 
in their use), and could prepare an email guide for others. I could put 
the guide on the wiki, actually.

Moses

On Nov 14, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:

> On 2004/11/15, at 10:52, Moses Hohman wrote:
>> This sounds good. So, for now, don't check anything into lib that 
>> doesn't work with Ruby 1.6? And at some point in the future, once the 
>> final 0.6.* release has gone out, we'll check things in to lib that 
>> move toward 1.8.1, is that right? How many more 0.6.* releases are 
>> planned?
>
> Right.
>
> It depends on when we move to >=1.8.1, however, not so many
> 0.6 releases are planed (one or zero, maybe).
>
> e.g. Should we wait for OS X shipped with Ruby 1.8 series?
>
>> Or do we want to use branches in CVS to accomplish this?
>
> This will be the right way to go.
> The problem is, to be honest, I'm not so familiar with
> the CVS branching.
>
> Toshiaki
>
>
>
>> Moses
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Moses,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your contributions.
>>>
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> To ALL:
>>> Unit tests are now merged in the CVS tree and can be run
>>> with 'ruby install.rb test'.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>
>>> I think BioRuby still compatible with Ruby 1.6.8.
>>>
>>> How about to keep BioRuby 0.6 series with support for Ruby 1.6,
>>> and preparing 0.7 series which may require >=1.8.1?
>>>
>>> I'm fine even if the unit tests fails with Ruby 1.6 during the
>>> above transition, as far as the BioRuby library can be installed
>>> and used with Ruby 1.6.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Toshiaki Katayama
>>>
>>> On 2004/11/14, at 3:13, Moses Hohman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> What version(s) of Ruby does bioruby officially support? >=1.8.1? 
>>>> Is 1.6 support being phased out? I just want to make sure that 
>>>> stuff I check into CVS (mostly unit tests and maybe some small 
>>>> refactorings) fits the standard and everyone's expectations.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Moses
>>>>
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