librarian-puppet in verbose mode fails because of git version check in librarian

[balrajs]

Environment: Windows 7, librarian-puppet 1.0.1, librarian 0.1.2, git 1.8.1.msysgit.1

When running librarian-puppet install in --verbose mode, it silently fails as librarian try's to print out my git version which have alphabets in it. This check is happening in 'respository.rb' in function git_version.

 def git_version
       command = %W[#{bin} version --silent]
       Posix.run!(command).strip =~ /\Agit version (\d+(\.\d+)*)/ && $1
end

[rapaul]

I work with @balrajs and did a bit of digging into this. I believe the problem isn't related to letters in the git version, but rather that the Poxis.run! (from posix.rb) call is now calling Process.spawn with IO.pipe being passed in options (opts) which isn't supported on Windows (Not available on all platforms).

Looking at the git history, this changed in 2d5984e where support for JRuby, Ruby < 1.9 and Ruby 1.9 or higher was added. In this commit the process handling was switched from Open3.popen3 to Process.spawn.

I'm contemplating putting in a pull request to switch back to Open3, but I'm not sure what the orginal intent of moving away from Open3 was.

[andyjansson]

@yfeldblum Got any input on this?

[rapaul]

I should point out that other (all?) calls to Posix.run! fail. This git version method is just the first one hit when running librarian puppet in debug mode.

[yfeldblum]

Try with b968cd9.