Release Engineering

version numbering came up in #ruby-lang tonight. knu explained the new
style, and i wrote this to recap what i understood. i hope it’s all
correct. :wink:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ReleaseEngineering

-Justin White

just6979@yahoo.com
http://tin.2y.net/
AIM: just6979

Thanks Justin. Unfortunately I find it a bit hard to understand!
Could you please provide some examples? It has whet my interest.

Regards,
Gavin

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On Monday, February 3, 2003, 6:49:10 PM, Justin wrote:

version numbering came up in #ruby-lang tonight. knu explained the new
style, and i wrote this to recap what i understood. i hope it’s all
correct. :wink:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ReleaseEngineering

added some examples using 1.8 and rearranged a bit, hopefully to be more
coherent.

-Justin

just6979@yahoo.com
http://tin.2y.net/
AIM: just6979

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On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:16 , Gavin Sinclair wrote:

On Monday, February 3, 2003, 6:49:10 PM, Justin wrote:

version numbering came up in #ruby-lang tonight. knu explained the new
style, and i wrote this to recap what i understood. i hope it’s all
correct. :wink:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ReleaseEngineering

Thanks Justin. Unfortunately I find it a bit hard to understand!
Could you please provide some examples? It has whet my interest.

Thanks, that’s better. Although I find the “new way” confusing. But
I don’t care what the version numbers of Ruby are. Discussion here
will help me know which to run, and ‘shim’ allows me to sample the
latest.

Gavin

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 5:49:45 PM, Justin wrote:

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:16 , Gavin Sinclair wrote:

On Monday, February 3, 2003, 6:49:10 PM, Justin wrote:

version numbering came up in #ruby-lang tonight. knu explained the new
style, and i wrote this to recap what i understood. i hope it’s all
correct. :wink:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ReleaseEngineering

Thanks Justin. Unfortunately I find it a bit hard to understand!
Could you please provide some examples? It has whet my interest.

added some examples using 1.8 and rearranged a bit, hopefully to be more
coherent.