Dropping Ruby 1.8.7 support?

[Jo Liss]

Hey list,

The Capybara 1.1-stable branch still works with Ruby 1.8.7:
http://travis-ci.org/#!/jnicklas/capybara/jobs/2182195

But master (2.0) fails horribly:
http://travis-ci.org/#!/jnicklas/capybara/jobs/2020445

I can reproduce these failures locally, so it's not just a Travis problem.

What do you think about dropping 1.8.7 support for 2.0?

Cheers,
Jo

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[Matt Wynne]

On 20 Aug 2012, at 23:12, Jo Liss wrote:

Hey list,

The Capybara 1.1-stable branch still works with Ruby 1.8.7:
http://travis-ci.org/#!/jnicklas/capybara/jobs/2182195

But master (2.0) fails horribly:
http://travis-ci.org/#!/jnicklas/capybara/jobs/2020445

I can reproduce these failures locally, so it's not just a Travis problem.

What do you think about dropping 1.8.7 support for 2.0?

Do it!

cheers,

Matt

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[Attila]

in my opinion we need to move on and after a while it is not feasible to support older versions of ruby unless it would be very easy to get back on track with 1.8.7 as well.

this is obviously not the case. projects need to move on, if we keep supporting old versions then there will be no reason for others to keep up and that would cause a lot of headaches in the future for everybody.

i'd say go for it!

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[Jonas Nicklas]

Ruby 1.8 EOL is within a year. By the time 2.0 is actually released it
will probably only be a couple of months. Let's drop it.

/Jonas