From: Dan Rathbun <danzoid61@...>
Date: 2010-08-12T02:33:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining whether the running ruby is outdated?

Lars Olsson wrote:
> 
> Will the file be updated on regular intervals?

I will update it for my own use (as a reference to keep track
of what I have done etc., for my own applet.)

> Is the current location static or will it change?

I dont know much about how the ruby-forum software works.

> Since my utility will have to rely on external resources it
> is important to me that it will not break due to those external
> resources changing location or containing old information.

Hmmm... Luis Lavena is also involved with pik developement (which is a 
Ruby Version Manager and Configurator,) for Windows. There is also RVM 
(for Unix-like systems.)

Both of these utilities have a gem-like install capability. You would 
think somewhere that there must be a "dictionary" so that these 
utilities can find the 'rubies' (the term for a specific Ruby 
cpu-platform-version-patchlevel package,) to install.

They may just be using RubyGems to read the ruby-lang.org gem 
repository.

But anyway... I am not "on" the Ruby Core project team, the Ruby 
Installer project team, etc. I just make a few suggestions from time to 
time.

I have nothing against anyone taking what I've begun (cleaning it up, 
changing format [JSON, CSV, PStore, etc.] and using it to create on 
online 'official dictionary' of some kind.
I agree it should be somewhere like rubyforge.net or ruby-lang.org

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