Ruby 1.8.8dev stable snapshot?

ruby-talk
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Hello ~

Went to do a routine ruby install from source, grabbed a stable
snapshot, and instead of getting an expected 1.8.7 I got:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-03-11)

Should this really be the STABLE snapshot? It throws up trying to
RubyGems installed:
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
Password:
/home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems/version.rb:53:in
`initialize': Malformed version number string 1.8.8.-1 (ArgumentError)
  from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in `new'
  from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in
`ruby_version'
  from setup.rb:111

···

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Ben Reubenstein
http://benr75.com

2

Hello ~

Went to do a routine ruby install from source, grabbed a stable
snapshot, and instead of getting an expected 1.8.7 I got:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-03-11)

Should this really be the STABLE snapshot?

It's stable, it runs and i think even the tests are passing. This
tarball is made directly from the svn repo, and the ruby version in
the repo is 1.8.8 since 1.8.7 was released already (that's also why it
says 'dev').

It throws up trying to RubyGems installed:
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
Password:
/home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems/version.rb:53:in
`initialize': Malformed version number string 1.8.8.-1 (ArgumentError)
from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in `new'
from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in
`ruby_version'
from setup.rb:111

rubygems/version.rb doesn't allow anything but \d and \. in the
version string, so i guess this version would confuse it :slight_smile:
Don't expect any libraries to work with a yet unreleased ruby version
if you don't want to get down, read and understand their code and get
tweaking.

^ manveru

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, benr75 <benr75@gmail.com> wrote:

3

This is new behavior in the 1.8 branch, so RubyGems wasn't equipped to deal with it until last week, when I checked a fix into trunk.

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On Mar 11, 2009, at 18:52, benr75 wrote:

Hello ~

Went to do a routine ruby install from source, grabbed a stable
snapshot, and instead of getting an expected 1.8.7 I got:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-03-11)

Should this really be the STABLE snapshot? It throws up trying to
RubyGems installed:
$ sudo ruby setup.rb
Password:
/home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems/version.rb:53:in
`initialize': Malformed version number string 1.8.8.-1 (ArgumentError)
  from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in `new'
  from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in
`ruby_version'
  from setup.rb:111

4

Eric Hodel wrote:

This is new behavior in the 1.8 branch, so RubyGems wasn't equipped to deal with it until last week, when I checked a fix into trunk.

Excellent, we've had this issue with JRuby too, for versions like 1.2.0RC1 or 1.3.0dev. What's the new rules for version numbering?

- Charlie

5

I'm not sure what the details are, I just applied this patch from Jeremy Kemper:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24048&group_id=126&atid=577

Apparently if there's an unreleased version, RUBY_PATCHLEVEL is -1

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On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:57, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

Eric Hodel wrote:

This is new behavior in the 1.8 branch, so RubyGems wasn't equipped to deal with it until last week, when I checked a fix into trunk.

Excellent, we've had this issue with JRuby too, for versions like 1.2.0RC1 or 1.3.0dev. What's the new rules for version numbering?