From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T19:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 1.8.2 imminent? And detecting Rubyx version

On Friday 06 Feb 2004 10:03 am, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:58:03PM +0900, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > I'm holding off an 'official' release of Rubyx (ruby based linux distro)
> > because it hits some bugs in 1.8.1 which have been fixed in cvs
> >
> > I was wondering whether anyone knows when 1.8.2 will be released?
> >
> > Otherwise, is there a way of detecting a version of ruby, which also
> > covers dated stable snapshots?
> >
> > Eg Rubyx needs stable-snapshot-2004-01-14.rar or newer. How can I test
> > for it?
>
> VERSION and RUBY_RELEASE_DATE

Thanks! My implementation seems messy though. Can anybody think of how to 
clean it up?


  #Need ruby 1.8.1 stable snapshot >= 2004-01-14
  catch :ok do
    puts("Detected ruby version #{VERSION}, released #{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE}")
    VERSION =~ /(\d*).(\d*).(\d*)/
    v1,v2,v3 = $1.to_i,$2.to_i,$3.to_i
    RUBY_RELEASE_DATE =~ /(\d*)-(\d*)-(\d*)/
    d1,d2,d3 = $1.to_i,$2.to_i,$3.to_i
    throw :ok if v1 > 1 or (v1 == 1 and v2 > 8) or (v1 == 1 and v2 == 8 and v3 
> 1)
    if v1 == 1 and v2 == 8 and v3 == 1
      throw :ok if d1 > 2004 or (d1 == 2004 and d2 > 1) or (d1 == 2004 and d2 
== 1 and d3 > 13)
    end
    raise "Rubyx needs ruby version 1.8.2 or a 1.8.1 stable snapshot released 
after 2004-02-13"
  end