From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T00:36:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17141] Re: Standardizing RUBY_PLATFORM

On 6/7/08, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hello, I believe I'm the only one who actually touches RUBY_PATCHLEVEL.
>
>
>  > Versioning has been a source of contention recently, mainly because
>  > _PATCHLEVELs have been used to actually make changes in functionality.
>  > In the future, they should be used strictly for bugfixes (and they
>  > should only ever be checked by users to see whether the bug has
>  > been fixed.)
>  >
>
>
> It *is* for bugfixes.  I don't remember any patchlevels which were not
>  for.  Can you show us one?
>

From the 1.8.6 changelog file:
Sat Jun 17 14:53:32 2006  Tanaka Akira  <akr@m17n.org>

	* lib/pathname.rb: backport from 1.9.
	  (Kernel#Pathname): new method.

Speaking of which.. the last patchlevel that got an entry in the
ChangeLog was 1.8.6-p36. Is the practice of mentioning patchlevels in
the ChangeLog gone for good?

Regards,
--Wilson.