From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-06-01T09:25:13+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9.1-p376 vs. 1.9.1-p378

On May 31, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote:

> On 2010-05-31, James Edward Gray II <james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
>> On May 31, 2010, at 7:50 AM, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> 
>>> I just noticed that both http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ and
>>> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ advertise 1.9.1-p376, but
>>> ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ also contains ruby-1.9.1-p378
>>> as well?  Which is preferred?
>> 
>> 378 is preferred.  The page was just out-of-date.  I've updated it.
> 
> Thanks for clearing that up James!  Mind you, it's still a little
> confusing that the "Other News" section on
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ only mentions -p376 .  Maybe an item
> about -p378 could be added there?

The core team doesn't always write about every point release, I assume because it's a bit of work that takes away from the time they could be working on Ruby.

In general though, point releases should just contain bug fixes.  Given that, bigger is better is a good rule-of-thumb.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II