Change highline dependency in gemspec from "~> 1.5.2"

[adelcambre]

I’ve just come across the following problem when trying to run Shai Rosenfeld’s eycheck:

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[Tim@iMac ~]$ eycheck tm50-s00146
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:233:in activate’: can’t activate highline (~> 1.5.2, runtime) for ["engineyard-1.1.0", "ronin-0.35.1", "eycheck-0.4.18"], already activated highline-1.6.1 for ["capistrano-2.5.19", "samurai-0.22.171", "eycheck-0.4.18"] (Gem::LoadError) from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:249:inactivate’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:in each’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:inactivate’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:249:in activate’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:ineach’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:in activate’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:249:inactivate’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:in each’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:248:inactivate’
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:1082:in `gem’
from /usr/bin/eycheck:18
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I had the following highline gems installed:

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[Tim@iMac ~]$ gem list highline

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

highline (1.6.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.0)
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After tyring to remove and reinstall various gems to get things working, I eventually modified the gemspec for the engineyard gem so that the dependency for highline was the following:

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s.add_runtime_dependency(%q, [">= 1.5.2"])
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I don’t know if this is going to bite other people soon, but thought I would open this ticket to see if this is something that should be changed?

[adelcambre]

Change highline dependency in gemspec from "~> 1.5.2"

If all the tests pass with highline 1.6, then we can bump the dependency. I
don’t want to make it just > 1.6, though, as then an API-changing release of
highline could retroactively break installation of a whole bunch of versions
of the engineyard gem.

by Sam Merritt

[adelcambre]

Change highline dependency in gemspec from "~> 1.5.2"

More from the don’t-use->= camp: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/08/21/using-considered-harmful-or-whats-wrong-with/

Let’s just bump the dependency to be ~>1.6.1.

by Sam Merritt

[smerritt]

Bump dependency on highline.

Closed by b89391c.