From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T05:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 rpm?

Hal Fulton wrote:

> I thought the 1.8.0-1 meant preview 1. Is this really
> the released 1.8 then?

Yes, this should be the first release of the ruby-1.8.0 RPM. The naming 
convention for RPMs is that that third field is the release number, 
which indicates the number of times this RPM package has been rebuilt 
for the given software version (ruby 1.8.0). Usually those rebuilds 
(which bump up the "release" number) are due to bug fixes. So, for 
example, after ruby-1.8.0 has been out for awhile, the RPM package 
maintainer might release a ruby-1.8.0-2.i386.rpm with the latest bug 
fixes for ruby-1.8.0.