From: Ryan Davis Date: 2010-09-10T10:52:19+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:32274] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/ On Sep 9, 2010, at 17:15 , NARUSE, Yui wrote: > 2010/9/10 James Cox : >> As an alternate approach: >> >> what would the problem be to start shipping a minimal version of ruby, >> from the next release, with everything except stdlib, which is >> replaced with a gem distribution? Then we can promote it (with an >> appropriate fallback to support the fully bundled version for >> environments which need it). >> >> We have the wonderful rake, so I can't imagine it would be much more >> difficult to extend our build system to handle the minimal version. >> >> At least this might allow us to break the deadlock and see if people >> would be willing to switch to a simpler, clean version of ruby which >> ships without monkey-patches and hacks to make libraries work - >> allowing us to have a nice clean base to start adding libraries to? > > This breaks compatibility; it's why REXML is needed. How?