On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:8946] Re: String confusion"
>     on 01/01/10, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> |Will it be long till 1.6.3 comes out? 
> 
> I'm not sure.  But we've found some serious bugs (like String#reverse!
> one), so that 1.6.3 will be out soon.

Thank you.
> 
> |Is there a place where a complete set of stable patches can be obtained,
> |so that those downloading 1.6.2 tomorrow can fix bugs without adding
> |experimental features?
> 
> try ruby_1_6 branch in the CVS repository.
> 
>   cvs co -d :pserver:anonymous / cvs.ruby-lang.org:/ruby -r ruby_1_6 ruby
> 
> And if you have modifies which you want to see in 1.6.3 but not in the
> branch, tell me.

OK, so is it difficult to produce a file of stable patches, so that
links on the Ruby Home page, and the Download page can point to this
file?  I am thinking that it could be updated every k hours or just
when the right bit of CVS is updated, for some value of k (24?).  I'm
suggesting that you make it as easy to grab as the stable release, really.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
	Hugh
	hgs / dmu.ac.uk