From: "NARUSE, Yui" Date: 2010-09-09T13:04:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:32210] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/ 2010/9/9 Aaron Patterson : > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:30:56PM +0900, U.Nakamura wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In message "[ruby-core:32203] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/" >> � � on Sep.09,2010 12:23:26, wrote: >> > > > The same argument could be made for any library in stdlib. �Why waste >> > > > someone's hard drive space with Psych when they never parse YAML? >> > > >> > > Because rubygems uses YAML library, of course. >> > > It is the only and the absolute reason. >> > >> > YAML was an example. �How about DL, json, strscan, etc? �Why waste space >> > with those? >> >> DL is needed by win32 platforms. >> >> IMO, json, strscan, and others should be unbundled because >> they are not needed to run rubygems. > > Why waste space with rubygems for people who don't use rubygems? > > My point is not about who uses what. �Many people use Ruby differently. > I cannot account for every possible usage. �My point is that "disk > usage" arguments are not valid because they can be taken to an extreme. > > Also, I think that if we package stdlib as gems, we can mitigate any > real world disk usage problems. Ignore bike-sheds. -- NARUSE, Yui naruse@airemix.jp