From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-06-11T22:43:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17217] Re: REXML Separation



On Jun 10, 12:22�pm, Evan Phoenix <e...@fallingsnow.net> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Sean E. Russell wrote:
>
> > (Sam, I also address your response at the bottom of this email)
>
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Federico Builes wrote:
> >> As most of you may know, REXML's currently using a different bug
> >> tracker and source control tree.
> >> �I'd like to know what's the rationale behind having this, is there
> >> a major reason not to merge that (or at least, the bug tracker) into
> >> SV/the new Redmine installation?
>
> > The rational is that, long before REXML was distributed with Ruby, it
> > was an external library.
>
> Would you be willing to start releasing REXML as a gem as well? For �
> Rubinius, we're looking to mitigate a stale stdlib as much as possible �
> by using things from gems instead. If REXML was simply a gem, we could �
> provide a version pre-installed, and any future updates could be �
> pulled down by simply updating the gem.

+1

Ruby and REXML would both be better served if it were a separate gem.

T.