From: TRANS <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T21:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

On 7/17/07, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp> wrote:
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> Hi Eric,
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> Eric Hodel wrote:
> >> Matz plans to import gem into Ruby 1.9.  Does anyone has any
> >> comment to this?
> >>
> >> - possibility/difficulty to import
> >
> > RubyGems uses many features of Ruby, so 1.9's libraries need to be
> > fairly stable in order to continue working.
>
> >> - compatibility
> >> - and other problems
> >
> > RubyGems is still missing one key feature, the ability to handle
> > platform-specific gems.  There may be a few other minor features that
> > are missing, but I don't think RubyGems is ready for inclusion until then.
>
> Are you and RubyGems maintainers negative to include RubyGems in
> ruby/1.9.1 ?
>
> I have a plan to propose unbundling some libraries such as soap4r, tk,
> webrick, json, etc.  Maintainer-less libraries such as yaml should be
> unbundled, too (bear in mind that I'm talking about ruby/1.9).  It can
> be a gem when RubyGems is bundled in MRI.  It can be a package of
> another packaging system(deb, rpm, etc.), too.  Users will use favorite
> packaging system then.

Unbundle Yaml and Webrick? Are you kidding? Those are bread and butter!

T.