From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-09-09T02:54:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32166] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems?

On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> On 2010-09-09 01:45:43 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> Taken from the bundle Nokogiri thread:
>> 
>>> Currently, we're discussing three different topics:
>> 
>>> 3) all stdlib should be converted to gem, or not
>> 
>>> Next, the point 3 should be discussed in another thread.
>>> You can't have it both ways at once.
>> 
>> I guess I'm not understanding.  What are the minuses of Ruby shipping
>> with a set of blessed gems?  I can't think of any.
> 
> well for one ... we would kind of need 2 directories for said gems imho.
> because uninstalling the gems that form the stdlib or a release should
> not be possible.

Why?

James Edward Gray II