install for 1.6.2 doesn't work after 1.6.5 release

[Alan Baird]

This morning I was helping a coworker get some things up and running with watir and noticed that he had inadvertently got 1.6.5. Since 1.6.5 changes the way .visible? works, we decided to go back to 1.6.2 and make sure everything was ok there. We removed watir, commonwatir and firewatir and verified that everything was uninstalled. After that, we did the following:

C:\ >gem install watir -v 1.6.2
ERROR: Error installing watir:
firewatir requires commonwatir (= 1.6.5, runtime)

C:\ >gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
(removed unnecessary gems)
...
commonwatir (1.6.2)
...

C:\ >gem install firewatir -v 1.6.2
Successfully installed firewatir-1.6.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for firewatir-1.6.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for firewatir-1.6.2...

C:\ >gem install watir -v 1.6.2
Successfully installed watir-1.6.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for watir-1.6.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.6.2...

So, to me it seems that there is a gem dependency in the firewatir install for commonwatir 1.6.5 (or maybe it's just the latest version).

What do you think?

Alan

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[ravi pulipaka]

Hello,

I too had the same problem the I just installed commonwatir 1.6.5 and the installed watir -v 1.6.2
it let me do the installation but when i ran the previously running script it faild stating no such file to laod watir/ie

Any suggestions

thanx in advance

regards
ravi

[Alan Baird]

Should have said...

..it seems that there is an unnecessary gem dependency in the firewatir 1.6.2 install for commonwatir 1.6.5 (or maybe it's just for the latest version).

[Bret Pettichord]

Alan,

You are seeing a problem that we also saw with Watir 1.6.5RC1. We fixed
it in the first 1.6.5 by changing the way watir does dependencies.

Here are the dependencies for Watir 1.6.2

C:\work\common_ground>gem dependency watir
Gem watir-1.6.2
win32-process (>= 0.5.5, runtime)
windows-pr (>= 0.6.6, runtime)
activesupport (>= 0, runtime)
commonwatir (= 1.6.2, runtime)
firewatir (>= 0, runtime)

The problem is that Watir 1.6.2 will use FireWatir 1.6.5, which runs
into a conflict with the common watir gem.

My thought at the moment is that we should release a Watir 1.6.3 that is
the same as 1.6.2, but with the dependencies declared correctly. Because
I know people are going to want to go back and forth between 1.6.5 and
1.6.2.

Thoughts?

Bret

[Charley Baker]

Sounds reasonable to me, I don't see any downside of doing a simple 1.6.3 quiet release, and you're right, people already do want to bounce back and forth if they see issues in 1.6.5.

-Charley

[bpett...@gmail.com]

I've opened up a ticket for this problem: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-409

If this issue is of interest to you, please watch and/or vote and/or
comment on the ticket. I worked on this today and ran into some
complications. Please see the ticket for more information.

(I'm generally trying to move discussions about bugs to Jira.)

On Nov 13, 10:46 am, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable to me, I don't see any downside of doing a simple 1.6.3
> quiet release, and you're right, people already do want to bounce back and
> forth if they see issues in 1.6.5.
>
> -Charley
>