Ruport FasterCSV version dependency

[Andrew France]

Hi everyone,

I recently tried installing the Ruport gem and it failed due to
depending on FasterCSV version 1.2.3 which is no longer available. I
was of course able to install it by using the force option but I think
we really should get this fixed as soon as possible as it may turn
people away. Looking at the changelog for FasterCSV and running the
Ruport test suite I can't see any reason not to alter the gem spec to
allow FasterCSV >= 1.2.3.

There are three admins on the Rubyforge account, so I would ask any
one of them to please make this change as soon as they can.

Thanks!

Andrew

[Gregory Brown]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Andrew France <andrew...@avito.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently tried installing the Ruport gem and it failed due to
> depending on FasterCSV version 1.2.3 which is no longer available.

What?

sandal:prawn $ sudo gem install fastercsv -v 1.2.3
Password:
Successfully installed fastercsv-1.2.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1102

Sound like you've got something br0ken in your RubyGems. :)

I will unlock the version number on the next release since FasterCSV's
API is not going to change.
But I don't think we have a crisis here.

-greg

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[Andrew France]

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Andrew France <andrew...@avito.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I recently tried installing the Ruport gem and it failed due to
>> depending on FasterCSV version 1.2.3 which is no longer available.
>>
>
> What?
>
> sandal:prawn $ sudo gem install fastercsv -v 1.2.3
> Password:
> Successfully installed fastercsv-1.2.3
> 1 gem installed
> Installing ri documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...
> Installing RDoc documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...
>
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1102
>
> Sound like you've got something br0ken in your RubyGems. :)
>

Ok I was incorrect about it being unavailable, but I think it's
understandable why one would think this:
$ sudo gem install ruport
ERROR: Error installing ruport:
ruport requires fastercsv (= 1.2.3, runtime)

This is a pretty stupid error from the gem command since the dependency
is installable as you've shown. The error indicates, to me anyway, that
Ruport is not installable. This is using rubygems 1.2.0, which is what
comes with Ubuntu 8.10, I don't know if it's fixed in the latest version
(and I don't wish to ruin my packaging system to find out).

I don't know how Rubyforge works, I thought you would be able to fix the
gem spec independently without having to make any other changes like
incrementing the version number.

Regards,
Andrew

[Gregory Brown]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Andrew France:

> This is a pretty stupid error from the gem command since the dependency
> is installable as you've shown. The error indicates, to me anyway, that
> Ruport is not installable. This is using rubygems 1.2.0, which is what
> comes with Ubuntu 8.10, I don't know if it's fixed in the latest version
> (and I don't wish to ruin my packaging system to find out).

I was able to repeat this on RubyGems 1.2.0. That sucks. I'm not
sure what's going on here. It's not clear to me however that bumping
the version of FCSV is going to fix this. Is there a reason why you
assume it will?

> I don't know how Rubyforge works, I thought you would be able to fix the
> gem spec independently without having to make any other changes like
> incrementing the version number.

This messes up the file distribution mirrors which hash the packages
by filename. You should never release changed code without
incrementing at least the tiny version number, even if it's a minimal
change. It's a release integrity / security issue. You don't want to
tag some code as a snapshot and then change it. That's why systems
like git don't even let you do that.

[Gregory Brown]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Gregory Brown
<gregory...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Andrew France:
>
>> This is a pretty stupid error from the gem command since the dependency
>> is installable as you've shown. The error indicates, to me anyway, that
>> Ruport is not installable. This is using rubygems 1.2.0, which is what
>> comes with Ubuntu 8.10, I don't know if it's fixed in the latest version
>> (and I don't wish to ruin my packaging system to find out).
>
> I was able to repeat this on RubyGems 1.2.0. That sucks. I'm not
> sure what's going on here.

I confirmed this is fixed in v 1.3.1 of RubyGems.

sandal:rubygems-1.3.1 $ gem -v
1.3.1
sandal:rubygems-1.3.1 $ sudo gem install ruport
Successfully installed fastercsv-1.2.3
Successfully installed ruport-1.6.1
2 gems installed

Installing ri documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...

Installing ri documentation for ruport-1.6.1...

Installing RDoc documentation for fastercsv-1.2.3...

Installing RDoc documentation for ruport-1.6.1...

I will remove the lock in the next major release of Ruport (or in a
bug fix release if we need to roll one out anytime between now and
then), but at this point it's clear the issue is with RubyGems, and
that it has been resolved in newer versions.

Ruport users are advised to upgrade RubyGems, and if that is not
possible, to build a gem from source. I've updated the git
repository:

http://github.com/ruport/ruport