[ruby-core:24107] Re: [ANN] meeting log of RubyDeveloperKaigi20090622

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Charles Oliver
Nutter<[e-mail]> wrote:
> 2009/6/23 Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) <[e-mail]>:
>> =3D=3D=3D If possible
>> I hope to include the following features into the 1.9.2. But they might
>> take too many time for deciding their specs and implementing them.
>> * SQLite as a standard library
>> =A0* [ruby-dev:38463]
>> =A0* assigned to naruse
>
> Ok, an obvious concern here: implementations that can't support native
> extensions will have another new core library they have to support
> somehow. This may mean having to build an FFI version of sqlite
> interface or simply failing to support it. I'm confused why a library
> that works well as a gem (and has newer maintained versions like
> Amalgite) needs to be folded into core. Didn't we want to shrink the
> core set of libraries, rather than grow them?
>

I would have to agree with Charles on this point.

Right now is hard to fix already existing bugs at Ruby for Windows,
adding another extension and keep compatibility with it, provide
binaries during the build process and everything is going to
complicate our existence (RubyInstaller Team).

Also, evolution of code and acceptance of patches to ruby-core takes
times and sometimes got forgotten. We cannot depend on that for every
release of these components.

On the contrary, the gem approach help us update it more often and
deliver alternate versions for Windows users.

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Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry