From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-02-04T22:14:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Release Engineering

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 5:49:45 PM, Justin wrote:


> On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:16 , Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>> On Monday, February 3, 2003, 6:49:10 PM, Justin wrote:
>>
>>> version numbering came up in #ruby-lang tonight. knu explained the new
>>> style, and i wrote this to recap what i understood. i hope it's all
>>> correct. ;)
>>
>>> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ReleaseEngineering
>>
>> Thanks Justin.  Unfortunately I find it a bit hard to understand!
>> Could you please provide some examples?  It has whet my interest.

> added some examples using 1.8 and rearranged a bit, hopefully to be more 
> coherent.

Thanks, that's better.  Although I find the "new way" confusing.  But
I don't care what the version numbers of Ruby are.  Discussion here
will help me know which to run, and 'shim' allows me to sample the
latest.

Gavin