From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-07-11T01:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Clarifiction needed about versions

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:23:46PM +0900, John Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Here's more info:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/939

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