"Tom Sawyer" <transami / transami.net> wrote in message news:1030755047.543.36.camel / silver... > and, one more thing. i don't think these version directories under > site-ruby are a good idea. why have them? most packages will work just > fine from one update to another. and if one does not, shouldn't the > package maintainer take care of the versioning within the package > itself? just some thoughts that may make life a easier. Extension modules built for Ruby 1.6 are almost guaranteed not to work for Ruby 1.7.