From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-09-09T07:15:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32178] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems?

On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> On 2010-09-09 06:11:15 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Sep 8, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
>>> because a ruby 1.9.3 describes a feature set which includes the stdlib.
>>> so when ever ruby -v returns 1.9.3 all the stdlib features should always
>>> be available.
>> 
>> While I can appreciate this argument, there are reasons it might be a
>> good idea to remover them too.  I'm not totally sure we can't say, if
>> you uninstall standard library components you are accepting the
>> associated risks.
> 
> why would this be useful?

Say you needed to run Ruby with a smaller profile.  Or if you wanted to remove syck, ftools, etc. since you always use psych, fileutils, etc.

James Edward Gray II