From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T03:42:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Standard Library could use a lead maintainer

Brent Roman schrieb:
> Alternatively, now that gems is well established and just about
> every Rubyist has network access, why not reduce
> the standard library to the bare minimim necessary to support
> loading new gems automatically from the net as 'require'd?

There are situations when this behavior will cause problems. In the meantime I 
can use Ruby for several Scripts, that I give to companies, who will use them, 
because Ruby is not "the unknown language" any more (the "Rails" effect).

This means, that an Ruby installation is very often available or is possible, 
but if I tell them, that additional modules have to be loaded from the web, it 
can (=does) give problems.

I think we must be very careful with any reduction of the parts, that will be 
released together with Ruby..

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner