"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.