From: John Johnson <jj5412@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T23:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Clarifiction needed about versions

on 7/10/03 9:45 AM, Austin Ziegler at austin@halostatue.ca wrote:

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> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:43:46 +0900, John Johnson wrote:
>> ?You probably know this, but generally, open source software uses?an
>> odd second digit to indicate an unstable, or development
>> version.?Even second digits are usually safe :-)That pattern was
>> used for Ruby; however, Matz decided to change this for Ruby
>> sometime last year (I think). There's a message on -talk or -core
>> somewhere about this. I think that it was said that 1.8.0 is the
>> development line, 1.8.1 is the release line. There will be a 1.9 as
>> a released (stable) version, IIRC.

Just when you think you have it all figured out...

Thanks for the update.

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Regards,
  JJ

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