On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:55:02AM +0100,
 Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> Not at the moment, no.
...
> ago about pushing packages to 1.8, his feeling was that 1.8 was
> still a little unproven, and there may have been platform-specific
> issues.

OK, but I run Ruby 1.8 on many Linux machines (including a Sparc) and
it basically works. Keeping 1.6 by security is nice but not having
1.8...

Thanks for the information.