From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T06:19:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23996] Re: [ANN] meeting log of RubyDeveloperKaigi20090622

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Joel VanderWerf<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
>>
>> Amalgalite has a lot of things going for it:
>
> + RTree support compiled in (not a default for sqlite)
>
> + Jeremy Evans added an amalgalite adapter to sequel (though it is
> apparently not yet as fast as the sqlite adapter)

Amalgalite is great, but it does *embed* SQLite in Ruby. So when you
upgrade Ruby, you're also upgrading SQLite. What if we embedded other
libraries we offer bindings for? I think it's a practice to be
discouraged.

Also, in general, I prefer to see stdlib shrink instead of grow.
Bundling with Ruby is a good way to retard independent library
development.

jeremy