From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-03-17T05:13:29+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.8dev stable snapshot?

On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:57, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> This is new behavior in the 1.8 branch, so RubyGems wasn't equipped  
>> to deal with it until last week, when I checked a fix into trunk.
>
> Excellent, we've had this issue with JRuby too, for versions like  
> 1.2.0RC1 or 1.3.0dev. What's the new rules for version numbering?

I'm not sure what the details are, I just applied this patch from  
Jeremy Kemper:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24048&group_id=126&atid=577

Apparently if there's an unreleased version, RUBY_PATCHLEVEL is -1