[ruby-core:17331] Re: A plea for a release process

> Hello,
>
> In message "[ruby-core:17327] A plea for a release process"
>     on Jun.19,2008 04:08:35, <bri...@...> wrote:
>
> > First, whenever there are bugs in one of these released patchlevels,
> > the RubySpec sources must have ruby_bug and possibly version_is guards
> > added. The ruby_bug guard ensures that the spec for the correct
> > behavior will run on alternative implementations, but *not* run on the
> > MatzRuby version with the bug. This is done to prevent a bunch of
> > errors when running the RubySpecs on an already released version of
> > MatzRuby (since nothing can be done about the errors until a new
> > version or patchlevel). With so many patchlevels being released, the
> > number of these guards is increasing. While the guards are useful,
> > they complicate the specs and should ideally be avoided.
>
> Only these patchleves has been released.
>  1.8.5       Aug 25 2006
>  1.8.5-p2    Dec  4 2006 (security fix)
>  1.8.5-p11   Dec 18 2006
>  1.8.5-p12   Dec 25 2006
>  1.8.5-p35   Mar 13 2007
>  1.8.5-p52   Jun  9 2007
>  1.8.5-p113  Sep 23 2007
>  1.8.5-p114  Oct  4 2007 (security fix)
>  1.8.5-p115  Mar  3 2008 (security fix)
> (1.8.5-p2xx  maybe soon? / last release of 1.8.5)
>
>  1.8.6       Mar 13 2007
>  1.8.6-p36   Jun  9 2007
>  1.8.6-p110  Sep 23 2007
>  1.8.6-p111  Oct  4 2007 (security fix)
>  1.8.6-p114  Mar  3 2008 (security fix)
> (1.8.6-p2xx  maybe soon?)
>
>  1.8.7       Jun  1 2008
>  1.8.7-p17   Jun  9 2008
>
> Tagged versions on svn are not released.
> I think that RubySpec doesn't need to take care of them.