From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-10T17:02:40+09:00
Subject: Re: irb and 1.8.0

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:26:51AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> But that still doesn't explain why 1.8.0 has:
> 
> $ irb --version
> irb 0.9(02/07/03)

Same for me.

> But the latest irb in RAA is dated 2002.09.03.

Ugh, what an ambiguous date: I read 02/07/03 as 2nd July 2003. Americans
would read it as 7th February 2003. If it's an ISO date with the year
truncated (yyyy.mm.dd) then it's 3rd July 2002.

But it looks like somebody forgot to update the version string, since there
are many CVS $Date$ stamps later than that: for example

irb/completor.rb	2003/05/22
irb/context.rb		2003/07/26
irb/input-method.rb	2003/03/23
irb/locale.rb		2003/07/24

The version in RAA is called "0.9-2002.09.03". I imagine that it has not
been updated since then, and therefore the one in Ruby itself is the most
current. Also, RAA says:

   Description: Same Version of ruby1.7 except including Japanese
   Comments.

Regards,

Brian.