From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T14:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.5 problems? (Was: FileUtils.touch doesn't work)

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 1055 , Paul Lutus wrote:
>> Also, Ruby 1.8.5 has some problems. I personally recommend that people 
>> stick
>> with 1.8.4 unless they are intent on helping with the development of Ruby
>> itself. This is MERELY a PERSONAL OPINION.
> 
> What problems?
> 
> Have you filed bugs at the tracker:
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1698&group_id=426&func=browse
> 
> I'd really like to know so I can fix them.
> 
> I have had zero problems with 1.8.5.

I don't know where the problem lies, but 1.8.5 as installed by 1.8.5-21 
of the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows fails catastrophically with 
used with the IFMapper gem, which works fine with 1.8.4-20, and there is 
a report that rubyw.exe fails generally.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"