On Jun 18, 2:19 ¨Βν¬ ΒςιαΖοςδ Όβςι®®®ΐηναιμ®γονΎ χςοτεΊ > On Jun 18, 1:12 ¨Βν¬ ΆΥ®ΞαλανυςαΆ Όυ®®®ΐηαςβαηεγομμεγτ®κπΎ χςοτεΊ > > > > > Hello, > > > In message "[ruby-core:17327] A plea for a release process" > > on Jun.19,2008 04:08:35, <bri... / gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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© > > > .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© > > > .8.7 Jun 2008 > > .8.7-p17 Jun 2008 > > > 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>