From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-03-06T03:46:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.6 delayed for seven days

On Mar 5, 2007, at 05:55, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Tim Morgan <tmorgan99@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello:
>> I was just wondering: why is there no option to include rubygems  
>> in the main
>> distribution?
>> It could be set out as a configure --enable option.
>
> In the meantime, though, RubyGems is advancing faster than Ruby at the
> moment and there are some architectural changes that need to happen
> before it enters into Ruby's core.

Yup.  The consensus of the involved parties is that RubyGems isn't  
ready yet.