From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T18:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: raise unless RUBY_VERSION[%r/^\s*\d+\.\d+/o].to_f >= 1.8

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Gennady wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:56:03 +0900
> From: Gennady <bystr@mac.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> 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.

ah yes - _did_ think of that at one point.  must have drank more coffee that
day.  thatnks for the heads up.  definitely best to stick with a 'to_f' type
impl for now.

it would be really good if there was a 'standard' way to do this.

at one point, i created a Version class which used the rules that 'ld'
follows:

  interface.age.revision

etc. etc.


does anyone know what the meaning of ruby's tripplet?

-a
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