From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T21:32:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32098] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/

Hi,

In <AANLkTimyHxeMW6j6LjPJjz0cPuDns_Q0K-7yEMW9ZX53@mail.gmail.com>
  "[ruby-core:32078] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/" on Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:38:15 +0900,
  Chad Fowler <chad@chadfowler.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     > Supposedly there are REXML tests that are maintained outside of Ruby,
>     > but I don't know where those are. �:-(
>    
>     There are tests in the tar.gz available on the official REXML web page:
>     http://www.germane-software.com/archives/rexml_3.1.7.3.tgz
> 
> They are quite bad.

I don't know why exsiting test is bad.

> I think removing REXML and other non-essential libraries is a good idea and
> important to help open up the library ecosystem. Presence of a library in the
> standard library discourages developers from creating their own competing
> libraries.

I don't know why there is a relation between the standard
library and the ecosystem. There are many counter examples:
Nokogiri itself, miniunit and so on.


Thanks,
--
kou