Current bigdecimal version restriction requires downgrades on Ruby 4.0

[jeremyevans]

Currently, the gemspec has s.add_dependency "bigdecimal", "~> 3". Ruby 4 will ship with bigdecimal 4.0.1 Having to downgrade bigdecimal on Ruby 4 to use tiny_tds would suck. I didn't run tiny_tds's specs with bigdecimal 4, but Sequel's tinytds adapter specs pass with tiny_tds 3.3.0 and bigdecimal 4.0.1.

My recommendation would be to change to s.add_dependency "bigdecimal", ">= 3", or ">= 2" unless you are sure it doesn't work with bigdecimal 2.0.0 (the default on Ruby 2.7).

[andyundso]

I can certainly revise the version constraint, I would not expect any issues with bigdecimal v4.

I am wondering if bigdecimal is even included with v4 since it has been removed from the default gems in v3.4.

[jeremyevans]

bigdecimal is still a bundled gem, it's just no longer a default gem. Both bundled gems and default gems ship with Ruby, but bundled gems are like any other gems, while default gems are part of the standard library and can be required even without loading rubygems (or when bundler is used, even if they are not listed in the Gemfile). You can find the list of bundled gems for Ruby's master branch here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/gems/bundled_gems

[andyundso]

thanks for the explanation!

I'll have to cut a new release anyhow for Ruby v4.0 support in the precompiled version and would adjust the version constraint for big decimal alongside that.