From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2007-07-17T22:24:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9 On Jul 17, 2007, at 7:31 AM, TRANS wrote: > On 7/17/07, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi Eric, >> >> 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! Yeah, that would be a pretty drastic change. Also, what is the "json" library that was mentioned? $ ruby -v -r json -e1 ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-23 patchlevel 5000) [i686-darwin8.9.1] ruby: no such file to load -- json (LoadError) James Edward Gray II