Latest Windows installer is backdated

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I found some interesting/anomolous reporting with ruby -v.

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-11 gives:

ruby 1.8.1 (2004-01-27) [i386-mswin32]

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-12 (which is newer) gives:

ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

This seems backwards. Why?

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Bret Pettichord wrote:

I found some interesting/anomolous reporting with ruby -v.

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-11 gives:

ruby 1.8.1 (2004-01-27) [i386-mswin32]

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-12 (which is newer) gives:

ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

This seems backwards. Why?

Well, 1.8.1-12 is the latest version and should have somewhere around
mid-April of 2004. Not sure why it has the wrong date. I’ll add a bug report
for this.

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Hello Curt,

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 8:21:33 PM, you wrote:

Bret Pettichord wrote:

I found some interesting/anomolous reporting with ruby -v.

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-11 gives:

   ruby 1.8.1 (2004-01-27) [i386-mswin32]

Ruby windows installer 1.8.1-12 (which is newer) gives:

   ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

This seems backwards. Why?

Well, 1.8.1-12 *is* the latest version and should have somewhere around
mid-April of 2004. Not sure why it has the wrong date. I'll add a bug report
for this.

Sorry but the ruby release day is 2003-12-25. If you build it from the
1.8.1 tagged source files in the CVS repository.

The 11 version is wrong because it patches the ruby version date and
so mixes ruby release and your installation builder date. This are two
different things.

I'm currently setting up an own distribution (a so called batteries
included) for Arachno Ruby and don't like it to see the two concepts
mixed.

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Lothar Scholz wrote:

Well, 1.8.1-12 is the latest version and should have
somewhere around
mid-April of 2004. Not sure why it has the wrong date. I’ll
add a bug report
for this.

Sorry but the ruby release day is 2003-12-25. If you build it from the
1.8.1 tagged source files in the CVS repository.

The 11 version is wrong because it patches the ruby version date and
so mixes ruby release and your installation builder date. This are two
different things.

I’m currently setting up an own distribution (a so called batteries
included) for Arachno Ruby and don’t like it to see the two concepts
mixed.

Of course! Thanks for saving me a little time on this one.

Curt