From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" Date: 2012-11-20T20:54:45+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:49680] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5313] Please drop IRB's version in favour of Ruby version Issue #5313 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh). Target version set to next minor ---------------------------------------- Feature #5313: Please drop IRB's version in favour of Ruby version https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5313#change-33198 Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch) Status: Assigned Priority: Low Assignee: keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka) Category: lib Target version: next minor It seems that IRB's upstream lives in Ruby's SVN. There is no way how to update IRB separate from Ruby. From that point of view, it would make sense to drop IRB's own version numbers in favour of Ruby versions instead. The IRB reports this version information: > irb -v irb 0.9.6(09/06/30) However from the IRB changelog [1] it is clear that there went some changes in meantime, so the IRB's versioning is not reliable and does not make a sense IMO. [1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commits/trunk/lib/irb -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/