From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-08-10T06:10:22+09:00
Subject: Re: irb and 1.8.0

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> How do I get irb working nicely in 1.8.0?
> 
> The irb that gets built from the current tarball says:
> 
>   Version irb 0.9(02/07/03) is old.
> 
> Also, it does not use readline. In fact ext/readline doesn't even get 
> built.

Oops. I had reinstalled linux and lost the readline headers. Readline in 
1.8 is fine now.

But I'm still wondering why the obsolete version of irb is included?