On Jun 18, 2:19 ¨Βν¬ ΒςιαΖοςδ Όβςι®®®ΐηναιμ®γονΎ χςοτεΊ
> On Jun 18, 1:12 ¨Βν¬ ΆΥ®ΞαλανυςαΆ Όυ®®®ΐηαςβαηεγομμεγτ®κπΎ χςοτεΊ
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> > Hello,
>
> > In message "[ruby-core:17327] A plea for a release process"
> > on Jun.19,2008 04:08:35, <bri... / gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > First, whenever there are bugs in one of these released patchlevels,
> > > the RubySpec sources must have ruby_bug and possibly version_is guards
> > > added. The ruby_bug guard ensures that the spec for the correct
> > > behavior will run on alternative implementations, but *not* run on the
> > > MatzRuby version with the bug. This is done to prevent a bunch of
> > > errors when running the RubySpecs on an already released version of
> > > MatzRuby (since nothing can be done about the errors until a new
> > > version or patchlevel). With so many patchlevels being released, the
> > > number of these guards is increasing. While the guards are useful,
> > > they complicate the specs and should ideally be avoided.
>
> > Only these patchleves has been released.
> > .8.5 Aug 25 2006
> > .8.5-p2  ¨Βεγ  ²°°¶ ¨σεγυςιτζιψ©
> > .8.5-p11 Dec 18 2006
> > .8.5-p12 Dec 25 2006
> > .8.5-p35 Mar 13 2007
> > .8.5-p52 Jun  2007
> > .8.5-p113  ¨Βεπ ²³ ²°°·
> > .8.5-p114  ¨Βγτ  ²°°· ¨σεγυςιτζιψ©
> > .8.5-p115  ¨Βας  ²°°Έ ¨σεγυςιτζιψ©
> > (1.8.5-p2xx  ¨Βαωβε σοοξμαστ ςεμεασοζ ±®Έ®µ©
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> > .8.6 Mar 13 2007
> > .8.6-p36 Jun  2007
> > .8.6-p110  ¨Βεπ ²³ ²°°·
> > .8.6-p111  ¨Βγτ  ²°°· ¨σεγυςιτζιψ©
> > .8.6-p114  ¨Βας  ²°°Έ ¨σεγυςιτζιψ©
> > (1.8.6-p2xx  ¨Βαωβε σοοξΏ©
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> > .8.7 Jun  2008
> > .8.7-p17 Jun  2008
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> > Tagged versions on svn are not released.
> > I think that RubySpec doesn't need to take care of them.
>
> I've used the word "released" too imprecisely, but I don't think that
> RubySpec can completely ignore these tags.

Sorry, I meant *cannot* completely ignore these tags.

>
> On the one hand, if the specs are only run against officially released
> versions, then potential bugs (regressions) introduced in the
> development branch won't be caught. On the other hand, if the specs
> are used with the development branch "trunk" or "head" for each
> version (e.g. 1.8.6, 1.8.7, etc.), then the spec guards need to be
> able to accurately identify under which version the specs are being
> run (which means checking patchlevel too), otherwise there will be
> false positives for failures or some specs that should run would not.
>
> Why are all the tags used?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
>
> > Regards,
> > --
> > U.Nakamura <u... / garbagecollect.jp>