Why is Ruby 1.8.6 RC1 more recent than Ruby 1.8.6 Final?

Ruby
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Getting to the Ruby O.-click installer for Windows, we may go to

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

and then

http://rubyinstaller.org/download.html

however over there, it seems that

Ruby 1.8.6 RC1 (patchlevel 383)

is actually more recent than

Ruby 1.8.6 RC2 (patchlevel 27)

or

Ruby 1.8.6 Final (patchlevel 26)

If I install them on different machines, the RC1 actually shows a more
recent date than RC2 or Final, by using

ruby -v

What’s the rule? Does it go strictly by patchlevel? That is, the
patchlevel decides how update it is, instead of whether it is RC1, RC2,
or Final?

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On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Jian L. [email protected] wrote:

Ruby 1.8.6 RC1 (patchlevel 383)

recent date than RC2 or Final, by using

ruby -v

What’s the rule? Does it go strictly by patchlevel? That is, the
patchlevel decides how update it is, instead of whether it is RC1, RC2,
or Final?

Here you’re talking about a set of Installers, not Ruby itself.

I’ve answered your question over Stackoverflow:

Which I’m going to copy here for the sake of help others find the
information in the future:

"Hello,

Ruby-Lang website advertise a package of Ruby for Windows called One-
Click Installer.

That installer used to have their own version schema, as you note with
186-26 or 186-27 RC2

On RubyForge website (news section) you will find that efforts of the
project as moved towards newer RubyInstaller packages, and is
indicated there and the RubyInstaller download page that 186-27 RC2
is part of the legacy versions.

Latest RubyInstaller (currently in Release Candidate attempts) provide
information of the correct Ruby version that includes and install, as
indicated by the version string 1.8.6-p383 which is patchlevel 383
of Ruby.

Please note that you’re comparing different type of packages. One-
Click Installer versus RubyInstaller.

You can read more about this in the wiki and the latest
announcement at RubyForge

Hope this answer your questions.