From: Gennady <bystr@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T14:56:03+09:00
Subject: Re: raise unless RUBY_VERSION[%r/^\s*\d+\.\d+/o].to_f >= 1.8



On Nov 24, 2003, at 20:42, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Florian Gross wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:54:02 +0900
>> From: Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de>
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
>> Subject: Re: raise unless RUBY_VERSION[%r/^\s*\d+\.\d+/o].to_f >= 1.8
>>
>> Moin!
>>
>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>>> any better methods of require a specific version/set of versions?
>>
>> What about RUBY_VERSION >= "1.8.0"?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Florian Gross
>
> i thought about this for a while and came up with a good reason not to  
> do this
> - but it currently eludes me!
>
> unless someone can think of a reason not to - i'll take it!

It does not work as a general solution, as "1.11.0" < "1.8.0". However,  
bearing in mind that Ruby so far had only 1-digit version components  
and 1.9.x is going to be the last Ruby1 version (according to Matz),  
this check may be OK.

Gennady

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