hi, guenter, 


... any of the developers tried to build the cvs during the last week ?


Yes, from time to time the CVS breaks. Although this is annoying for some
there is probably nothing that can be done against it. After all it is a
tool for developers and not a distribution channel.

you could use some tags to identify stable releases
or at least useable ones...hum,
anyway i find it strange that the latest tarball of Gem
is so old given the amount of development
there have been here.

well, my 0.2 euros..

hasta la vista,
sevy