From: "Pena, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T15:02:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-p71 / 1.8.6-p286 released (Security Fix)

From: Urabe Shyouhei [mailto:shyouhei@ruby-lang.org] 
# 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.

thank you very much Urabe for the information/clarification.

kind regards -botp