I have worked out why the ril file was not distributed.
It is there now but the phone now doesn't pass the initial setup. From the screen 'Starting, please wait' it goes back to the one where it greets me in multiple languages and it is doing this loop.
Okay, I take a break now and trying to go back to an earlier, more or less working version. (I uploaded this last one 0.8 too. Available in my signature.)