Hello, After compiling the stable snapshot of ruby, I was quite surprised to find $ ruby -v ruby 1.6.4 (2001-05-29) [i686-cygwin] , especially as the 1.6.4 release version of ruby is newer: $ ruby -v ruby 1.6.4 (2001-06-04) [i686-cygwin] In ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ , both the snapshot and the stable snapshot are older than ruby 1.6.4. Isn't there any stable ruby 1.7.x snapshot? - Tammo Freese freese / acm.org