[BioRuby] moving to Ruby 1.8?

[Toshiaki Katayama]

Hi,

OK, let's branch for 1.8.
Your guide will be helpful for all developers.
Putting on wiki also sounds good.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

Thanks,
Toshiaki Katayama


On 2004/11/16, at 7:03, Moses Hohman wrote:

> 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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