From: gga <ggarra@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T00:30:42+09:00
Subject: Re: What libraries to be unbundled?

NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Note that this topic is based on the premise bundling RubyGems with
> ruby/1.9.1.
> 
> A. What libraries to be unbundled at ruby/1.9.1?
> 
>   - soap4r

+1 to unbundle - too specific and Drb, for most things, is better

>   - tk

+1 to unbundle - tk works, but there's better GUI toolkits out there now

>   - webrick

-1 to unbundle - a web server is overkill, but cool to get rails running
right away.

>   - json

+1 to unbundle - too java specific

>   - yaml

-1 to unbundle - WAY too useful and used everywhere

>   - rss

0

> After unbundling it, how users can obtain it?

Ideally:

 > gem install <something>

 like:
 > gem install tk

which gives them a list of versions and the ability to compile from
source or not if needed (ie. prebuilt binaries).


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