From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T21:40:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19017] Re: Let Ruby be Ruby

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:39:29AM +0900, Neil Stevens wrote:
> And the counterpoint to that, is if Ruby's standard library is light on  
> features, it will discourage people from even trying it.  If Python and  
> PHP can do X, Y, Z out of the box, but you have to install other  
> libraries to get Ruby to do those things, it will be counted as a strike  
> against Ruby.

IIRC one suggestion I heard a while back was to have Ruby ship with
a set of standard gems.  This allows packages to be upgraded apart from
Ruby releases but still gives users some toys to play with out of the
box.

Paul