Ripper is a bit of a problem at the moment. It has officially moved to RubyForge, but does not yet have a release (i.e. tar.gz file) there yet (we would have to acquire it via cvs). The old version at www.loveruby.net is marked as "unusable" and says to use the version on RubyForge. Is the only reason that ripper is in here because I requested it eons ago so that FreeRIDE could run? If this is so, FreeRIDE stopped using ripper as of the 0.6.0 release, so it is no longer needed. If there is no other reason for ripper to be here I would like to drop it. Curt