[Wtr-development] Watir Roadmap Changes

[Bret Pettichord]

Jarmo,

These are good questions. We discussed these points at the conference. Have
you had a chance to review the slides and videocast for my talk?
https://github.com/watir/watir-bazaar/wiki/Presentations

Bret

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Jarmo <jarmo.p at gmail.com> wrote:

> Too bad i got late to answering.
>
> Why did you guys decide on the name "watir-classic"? It seems to me being
> a little off-putting name as to "this is something classic, which means it
> should be old and probably deprecated, i'll just use something else". Why
> didn't you decide on the name "watir-ie" as it was before?
>
> What's the plan to let users know about this change via "gem install"? My
> proposal would be to release watir version X.X which would raise an error
> if "require 'watir'" is done or something similar. Any other proposals?
>
> I'm not actually happy about these last minute changes because these will
> postpone the release even more. It's already been 5 months since the last
> release. It's really-really bad in my opinion. I mean, REALLY BAD.
>
> In the mean time i've tried to make all specs pass with IE9, but caught up
> with my PC crashing. Trying to restore my OS, but that will not happen
> before few weeks due to my upcoming vacation.
>
> What is watir-compatibility?
>
> A lot questions :)
>
> Jarmo
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Hugh McGowan <colinsdaddy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The first part is done: https://github.com/watir/watir-classic
>>
>> I'll be putting together the new Watir repository in the next week....
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Hugh
>>
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