On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:46 PM, David Levin wrote:
From reading this thread and the bug, it sounds like there is one key issue installing something new on build machines.
As discussed before in regards to python, there was a desire not to go above a certain version so that the tiger build machine could run a script. That seemed reasonable to me.
Similarly there is a desire in this case to avoid Ruby because it means installing something new on other build machines. This also seems reasonable to me.
Hmm, I thought Ruby was a very longstanding dependency for the layout tests but it looks like it was a little over a year ago: 2009-04-24 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org> Reviewed by Adam Roben. Add PrettyPatch support to run-webkit-tests * Scripts/run-webkit-tests: