From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2002-06-18T17:07:52+09:00
Subject: Re: system & changes to ENV on Windows


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> You can download a snapshot of the latest CVS sources for Ruby 1.7 here:
>
>     ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/snapshot.tar.gz
>     [...]
>

Thanks for the information about "stable", "snapshot", etc.

I should probably have been able to guess some things myself,
but I can't help feeling that www.ruby-lang.org is mildly confusing
(what does "Devel is 1.7.2" mean for example ?).

>
> I think that date (2001-01-18) indicates when Matz first started providing
> downloadable "snapshots" of the CVS repository. But the snapshots themselves
> are updated every night (I guess).
>

Oh, I understand.
But I don't understand why this date is important.
I think it would be much more relevant to mention the date when the
"stable snapshot" was made.

>
> > From the web-page it seems that use of a newer version is
> > discouraged. Is that right ?
>
> A lot of people are using Ruby 1.7 at this time, even though it is the
> development version and not the "stable" release. It seems fairly stable at
> this point, but the usual caveats about using a development version instead
> of the release version still apply.
>
>

Since 1.7 seems to be provided as "snapshots", does this mean that
every user of 1.7 can have a potentially different version ?
(depending on when they "happened" to fetch the sources)

Since the 1.7 snapshots seem to be done every night, I guess they
can't all be equally "fairly stable" !??


/Johan Holmberg