Subject:
Re: [ruby-ffi] is the 0.6.0 gem ready to release?
From:
Mike Dalessio
Date:
1/25/10 6:38 AM
To:
ruby-ffi



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Wayne Meissner <wmeissner@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/1/25 Mike Dalessio <mike.dalessio@gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Stephen Bannasch
> <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org> wrote:
>>
>> Some of the new functionality in v0.6.0 is quite useful -- for example the
>> ability to look for multiple alternate libraries.
>>
>> But to get this version it needs to be built and installed from source.
>>
>>  $ gem list ffi -r
>>
>>  *** REMOTE GEMS ***
>>
>>  ffi (0.5.4)
>>
>> Is v0.6.0 ready to release?  If not what else needs to be done to get it
>> ready?
>
> FWIW, Nokogiri 1.4.1 is green on FFI 0.6.0.

Is it green on both FFI 0.6.0 and JRuby 1.4?  I mainly want to be sure
that the changes to ffi_lib behaviour are both forward and backward
compatible (or can be made to work), so gems work on both 0.6.0 and
older JRuby releases.

Nokogiri has been green on every version of JRuby since 1.3.0. Yes, including 1.4.0. :-D
 

Other than that, it probably needs to be checked that everything works
fine on at least:
- i386-Linux, x86_64-Linux;  at least on RHEL and Ubuntu

i386 Ubuntu works.
 
- i386-Darwin, x86_64-Darwin;  10.6.2 works for me, but no idea if it
works on 10.5 or 10.4
- win32 (mainly using the rubyinstaller ruby builds, but also I guess
the older VC compiled ones)
- esoteric things like ppc-linux, whatever-*BSD and solaris

Perhaps we should ask people who care about their platforms to volunteer for "final check" duties on those platforms. That would streamline this process.