On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > How would a new user know: 
	[...]
> > Should we not have ruby-1.6.1.X so that people can know where they are
	[...]
> 
> All these patches are rolled in to the source tree, and are available
> via either CVS or using the daily tarball.

OK, so the changelog would reflect this.  However, I still think there
is a case for 1.6.1.X where X represents pretty stable patches, the
website describes the CVS as being a rather less stable version of Ruby,
and this would be a "half-way house" between "Known to be stable, my
problem not fixed" and "my problem fixed, but could be more problems".

> 
> The missing piece is the notification system: there is a Ruby bug
> tracking system at http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/ruby-bugs, but
> people tend not to use it. If the solaris issue was raised as a bug

mea culpa.  I keep forgetting about this as well.
> 
> If we could make use of this system more universal, then its value
> would increase dramatically.

Agreed. 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
	Hugh