From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T05:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Standard Library could use a lead maintainer

Gregory Brown schrieb:
> There is always the option of having a 'core' gem server which hosts
> the bits that have been marooned from the stdlib, and maybe has a
> meta-gem that'd install all of them.

Is't something like the following scenario possible (may be even now)?

1) I have a Ruby application inside a subdirectory "/myappl", which I will 
deliver as a zip file (usually for Windows, but this shouldn't matter).

2) I need some parts of the standard library, which I want to include somewhere 
in a subdirectory of "/myappl", because I cannot load it on the target 
environment, so that a "require" will work.

3) Afterwards I'm putting everything together, so it can be installed somewhere 
on the target environment and works "stand alone".

In principle this will work (step 2) for other libraries too, if it works at all.

This scenario, or something alike, will solve all problems.

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner