[#2367] Standard libraries — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

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[#2397] PATCH: deprecate cgi-lib, getopts, importenv, parsearg from standard library — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

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[#2465] PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

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24 messages 2004/02/19

Re: Standard libraries

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-02-11 23:28:04 UTC
List: ruby-core #2373
Hi,

In message "Standard libraries"
    on 04/02/12, Dave Thomas <dave@thomases.com> writes:

|I'd like to propose two more criteria.
|
|1. Nothing new gets added without complete documentation
|2. For every library that gets added, another existing library should 
|be removed (using deprecation initially, but actually removed 
|eventually).
|
|If we have a problem with Ruby right now, it's that we're bulking up 
|with code that no one knows exists/how to use.

I didn't see any smiley here, how much are you serious?

Here's the modified version of your criteria, that I can accept:

  1. newly added things will be canceled if they are not documented
     completely before the stable release.

  2. when new library is added, let us start discussion about removing
     another out-of-date library.

							matz.

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