From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-11-25T16:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: raise unless RUBY_VERSION[%r/^\s*\d+\.\d+/o].to_f >= 1.8


"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Florian Gross wrote:
>
> > Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> >
> > > any better methods of require a specific version/set of versions?
> >
> > What about RUBY_VERSION >= "1.8.0"?
> >
>
> i thought about this for a while and came up with a good reason not to do this
> - but it currently eludes me!
>

Maybe this bothered you ?

RUBY_VERSION = "1.8.1"
p  RUBY_VERSION >= "1.8"  #-> true
RUBY_VERSION = "1.10.1"
p  RUBY_VERSION >= "1.8"  #-> false

.... but MINOR 10 would upset RUBY_VERSION_CODE (in version.h)
which, incidentally, would be a useful global (eventually).

It might take the pressure off Matz if 1.9 didn't have to be
followed by 2.0 tho' :-)


> unless someone can think of a reason not to - i'll take it!
>

Um, because it's crufty (looks like we can't tell the difference
between Numeric and String sorting sequence - even though I've
seen it used a lot in Ruby).


daz