[#WTR-209] installation asks too many questions - OpenQA Bug Tracker

Watir

installation asks too many questions

Created: 07/May/08 09:56 PM Updated: 15/Nov/09 05:27 PM Resolved: 04/Jun/08 04:13 PM

Component/s:

None

Affects Version/s:

1.5.4

Fix Version/s:

1.5.5

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When you install watir, you get all of these questions.

C:\Documents and Settings\Majid_Home>gem install watir
Install required dependency windows-pr? [Yn] Y
Install required dependency windows-api? [Yn] Y
Install required dependency win32-api? [Yn] Y
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
1. win32-api 1.0.6 (x86-mswin32-60)
2. win32-api 1.0.6 (ruby)
3. win32-api 1.0.5 (x86-mswin32-60)
4. win32-api 1.0.5 (ruby)
5. Skip this gem
6. Cancel installation

The last one about the win32-api is particularly problematic. If you answer wrong you get a mess, yet the right answer is not obvious.

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Bret Pettichord added a comment - 03/Jun/08 04:45 PM

Opened a support request with win32 utils to see if we can get some advice on how to handle this.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=20499&group_id=85&atid=412

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Bret Pettichord added a comment - 03/Jun/08 10:37 PM

This problem does not show up if you do a "gem install --system" first. Wondering if this is a good reason for us to look at Ruby 1.8.7.

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Bret Pettichord added a comment - 04/Jun/08 04:13 PM

This is fixed with commit 1351 and will be in Watir 1.5.5. See detailed comments in the code (watir.gemspec).

My comment about this being fixed in ruby 1.8.7 seems to be incorrect.

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Charley Baker added a comment - 15/Nov/09 05:27 PM

closing, done with recent versions of rubygems