[Proposal] RSpec support policy

[gongo]

Motivation

Now, jnicklas/turnip supports multiple version of RSpec (See: .travis.yml):

• RSpec 2.14.x
• RSpec 2.99.x
• RSpec 3.0.x
• RSpec 3.1.x
• RSpec 3.2.x
• RSpec 3.3.x

I think there are too many.

Proposed changes for support version

Ideally, latest version only.

But, I think everyone is not able to use the latest version.
And, many developers are using 2.14.x yet (maybe..).

Therefore, We propose the following policy:

• Latest version
• Previous version
• 2.14.x version

Example:

1. RSpec 3.3.x
2. RSpec 3.2.x
3. RSpec 2.14.x

In the future

When RSpec 4 was released, will stop support for RSpec 2.14.x.

[a-suenami]

LGTM 🍖

[KazuCocoa]

I vote your your proposal, Latest version, Previous version and 2.14.x version.
It is enough in most cases, i suppose.

[PragTob]

Keeping compatibility with many versions is difficult. People still using Rspec 2.14 can also keep using an older version of turnip which supports 2.14 imo. :)

E.g. if it were up to me I'd drop support for 2.x and make a new major release. And then only support 3.x or even 3.2+

[gongo]

E.g. if it were up to me I'd drop support for 2.x and make a new major release. And then only support 3.x or even 3.2+

E.g.

• turnip 1.3.x -> RSpec 3.x, RSpec 2.x
• turnip 1.4.x (or 2.x) -> RSpec 3.x only

[PragTob]

Make it 2.x as dropping support for a version is considered breaking and hence justifies a major version bump in semver. Good time to maybe make some other breaking changes :)

Thank you btw. for maintaining, I love turnip and over time feared it had gone unmaintained. Good to see that this is not the case 👍

[lukaso]

While we're talking breaking changes, we'd love to get our rutabaga gem incorporated... It allows you to call features straight out of rspec (inverts the control). https://github.com/simplybusiness/rutabaga. Rutabaga is a lot closer to how CucumberJVM works, I think.

[gongo]

Hi @lukaso

we'd love to get our rutabaga gem incorporated..

What's mean? "Rutabaga feature is provided as a built-in of Turnip" ?

[PragTob]

@lukaso I believe this should rather be discussed in a separate issue :) Aside from that I believe that extra gems for extra/changed functionality are a good thing :)

[lukaso]

Agreed as separate issue: #159

[gongo]

Thank you for comment 🍕
I decided to RSpec support policy and major release plan.

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When RSpec 3.4.0 is released, I will release Turnip 2.0.0.
Turnip 2.0.0 or later:

• Not support RSpec 2.x
• Support RSpec 3.x latest version and previous version
  • ex. RSpec 3.4.x + RSpec 3.3.x, RSpec 3.5.x + RSpec 3.4.x

If want to use RSpec 2, please use Turnip 1.3.x

[PragTob]

👍

[gongo]

I created https://github.com/jnicklas/turnip/tree/2_0_0_rc1 😄

[gongo]

RSpec 3.4.0 was released 🎉
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/releases/tag/v3.4.0