From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T11:35:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7-p71 / 1.8.6-p286 released (Security Fix)

Brian Andrews wrote:
> How can a patch be considered "released" without the Windows binaries 
> being made available?  Is compiling the Ruby source code for Windows 
> difficult?  If so, what's the hangup?  Binaries for all platforms should 
> be available before any "patch" announcement is made.
>   

Ruby has never been officially released as binaries.  It was always
released as source code.  Waiting binaries for all platforms is simply
impossible; can you compile ruby binaries for HP-UX on Itanium? or for
AIX on POWER5?