From: Brian Andrews <brian.andrews.discussion@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T04:14:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-p71 / 1.8.6-p286 released (Security Fix)

So Joe Developer should download the Ruby source code, fire up his C 
compiler of choice, compile his own version of Ruby, and start building 
and release software using his custom compiled version of Ruby?!

If there are 20,000 Ruby developers on the Windows platform, you are 
suggesting that 20,000 potentially different compiled versions of the 
Ruby binaries is acceptable?!  To me, that's bonkers.

Why does this ftp site even exist 
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32?  Isn't it where the 
Ruby maintainers release the "officially" compiled Windows binaries?  If 
not, what's it for then?  And why can't the latest patch be compiled and 
made available upon announcement?

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