New binaries 'ruby-1.6.7-20020912' and 'ruby-1.7.3-20020912'.
On 1.7, we changed the filename of ruby's DLL. So, now we lost binary level compatibility with old extension libraries. (Of cource, we have not guaranteed compatibility on 1.7 from the first.) By this change, mswin32 and mingw32 have binary level compatibility about extension libraries.
On 1.7, Process.getpid and $$ return positive value now. They returned negative value on Win9X before.
On 1.6, we fixed the problem that system didn't succeed environment variables.
New binary 'shim-20020912'.
Ruby Shim is a set of modules that provide new features of 1.8 to 1.6. You may use these features with require.
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