From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-12-22T01:49:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [Spam] Rake 0.8.0 added to Ruby

On Dec 21, 2007 11:31 AM, Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> > The core-team asked for this back in early October.
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/12383
> >
> > Quite a bit of discussion ensued back then about whether this should
> > be part of the library directly, or a pre-installed gem, in the end,
> > as far as I can see by re-reading the thread this was left up to Jim,
> > and it appears he took the first path.
>
> I don't mind packaging rake as a preinstalled gem.  In fact, it makes
> better sense in my mind as well.
>
> However, I don't see anything in the current source tree packaged in
> that manner (did I miss something?) and I was more concerned with
> getting rake ready for 1.9 than breaking new ground in how libs are
> packaged with Ruby.

Hmmm, I thought that the main motivation for pulling rubygems into the
1.9 core was to enable
repackaging a large portion of the existing standard library as
pre-installed gems, and that the repackaging would be happening.

Since it's getting late to load Ruby 1.9 onto Santa's sleigh, I'd have
expected that to have happened.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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