Many gems that depend on gems that depend on devtools (and therefore yardstick) are still tested against Ruby 1.8.7. If yardstick itself is not Ruby 1.8.7-compatible, it is impossible to test those gems for compatibility.
I am well aware that Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby Enterprise Edition, and Kiji are no longer supported by their respective core teams, however there are still many companies running legacy applications on these versions in production. Gem maintainers that want to continue to support these applications need to test their applications on Ruby 1.8.7 and this is currently not possible if such gems depend on any gems that use devtools. These relatively benign changes will fix this real-world problem.
Many gems that depend on gems that depend on
devtools(and thereforeyardstick) are still tested against Ruby 1.8.7. Ifyardstickitself is not Ruby 1.8.7-compatible, it is impossible to test those gems for compatibility.For example, the
twittergem, which needs to maintain Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility, depends onequalizer, which broke Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility in between versions 0.0.7 and 0.0.8. It is currently impossible forequalizerto test itself against Ruby 1.8.7 because it depends ondevtools.I am well aware that Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby Enterprise Edition, and Kiji are no longer supported by their respective core teams, however there are still many companies running legacy applications on these versions in production. Gem maintainers that want to continue to support these applications need to test their applications on Ruby 1.8.7 and this is currently not possible if such gems depend on any gems that use
devtools. These relatively benign changes will fix this real-world problem.This pull request is co-dependent on https://github.com/rom-rb/devtools/pull/47.