From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T12:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-p71 / 1.8.6-p286 released (Security Fix)

Pena, Botp wrote:
> ouch, i thought wrong for so a long time, i was thinking otherwise since it had the infix "stable" on it. Btw, why name it "stable-snapshot"?
>   

For some historical reasons where ruby_1_8 once was a "stable" branch in
the last century. It has been divided into more stable part versus
on-the-edge ruby_1_8 for several years. Snapshots are generated using
scripts and it seems that script is not updated to track "real" stables.
I suspect it is because we now have multiple stables, i.e. ruby 1.8.6
and 1.8.7.