From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-05-31T14:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: helium.ruby-lang.org was cracked

NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Randy Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> Do we know if the stable-snapshot in CVS was modified?
> 
> 
> No.  We are still working for checking.  For now, confirmed versions are 
> only official releases of 1.6.8 and 1.8.1.
> 
>> I noticed when I installed stable-snapshot recently, the version 
>> number was 1.8.2 instead of 1.8.1.
>>
>> Isn't the snable-snapshot supposed to be 1.8.1 too until 1.8.2 is 
>> officially released?
> 
> 
> Stable-snapshots released at ruby-lang.org have a version string "1.8.2" 
> since 2004-05-14T21:26:15+00:00.  In ruby, once matz decided to prepare 
> an official release, he incremented version.h.  And preparing the 
> official release generally takes a few weeks/months.
> 
> Regards,
> // NaHi
> 
> 

Thanks.

In general, is stable-snapshot more reliable (bug-free) than the release 
version?