From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T14:28:46+09:00
Subject: Ruby versions, snapshots and SVN branches - I'm confused.

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The ruby down load page has...

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

    * Ruby 1.9.1-p129 (md5: c71f413514ee6341c627be2957023a5c) Stable
      Version (recommended)

Which suggests that the 1.9.1 branch is the stable branch

    * Stable Snapshot This is tar�ed and gzip�ed file of the latest
      stable SVN. It should be better than the last stable release.

However this file corresponds to the
    http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/
code. And shows up as version 1.8.8

ie. Very far from the 1.9.1 "stable version recommended".

     * Nightly Snapshot This is tar�ed and gzip�ed file of the latest
       SVN. It may contain unfixed problems.

What does this correspond to?

Is there a "Stable Snapshot" of the 1.9.1 branch?

The ruby issue tracker lists...
    http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/
Popular Projects

     * Ruby 1.9 - Edge version of Ruby
           o Ruby 1.9.1 - The latest stable release of Ruby 1.9 series.

     * Ruby 1.8 - Stable development version of Ruby

           o Ruby 1.8.6 - An ancient stable release of Ruby that Rails users love

           o Ruby 1.8.7 - A stable release of Ruby for bridging a gap
             between the 1.8 and 1.9.

Which doesn't even mention 1.8.8


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