Nicolas> Hi! Nicolas> Now you can directly use the rubyforge version: Nicolas> $ sudo gem install vcs --include-dependencies --no-rdoc Nicolas> [...] Nicolas> Successfully installed vcs-0.5.2.4 Nicolas> New versions including next prereleases will be now available Nicolas> throught rubyforge. Nicolas> I left a link on my page: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~pouill_n/vcs. Thanks! (It worked this time.) Nicolas> PS: Due to a rubygem version numbering weakness versions are Nicolas> encoded as follow: Nicolas> 0.5.2.4 means 0.5_beta4 (alpha = 1, beta = 2, ...) I'm pretty sure Debian had the same problem some years ago. Ah, reinventing the wheel. :P

Nicolas> On 2/28/06, Roland Levillain <roland(a)lrde.epita.fr> wrote: >> Nicolas> [...] Nicolas> PS: Due to a rubygem version numbering weakness versions are Nicolas> encoded as follow: Nicolas> 0.5.2.4 means 0.5_beta4 (alpha = 1, beta = 2, ...) Nicolas> Yes but I want speed them either by giving them our Version Nicolas> class, or by making them more abstract in front of version. Nicolas> In fact their choice is not so bad, they prefer a strong (but Nicolas> boring) version numbering system than let people choose a too Nicolas> exotic one. It was just a joke. I just wanted to emphasize that computer scientists are (very) often faced to the same problems. :)