From: Benoit Daloze Date: 2010-09-16T08:07:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:32408] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems? On 15 September 2010 16:44, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/09/10 at 23:26 +0900, James Cox wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Urabe Shyouhei wrote: >> > How difficult to make myself understood in English. >> > >> > (2010/09/15 2:00), James Cox wrote: >> >>> I've been thinking about it for a few days and suddenly realized that this is >> >>> totally off topic :) I'll cut the thread for it later. >> >>> >> >> >> >> So you now have no blocking reason for not switching to gems? >> > >> > I never have. �I don't believe that switching to gems, that alone, would solve >> > my situation. �So go ahead. �The real change (if any) might happen when we >> > drop them from our repo. >> >> OK, so i understand that the RM/core are OK with it. Yui - any >> objections? Matz? >> >> Otherwise i see this as a go, and will work with whoever to gemify all >> the stdlib. > > Is the plan: > [A] to also distribute libraries from the stdlib as external gems, while > keeping the stdlib in its current form in the current ruby "source > tarball" ? > > [B] to change the content of the ruby "source tarball" to include many > gems instead of the current lib/ directory? > > I understood that it was [A], but if it's [B], I think that this has > many implications on packaging work, and should be discussed with > distributors. > > - Lucas I believe [B], because we already have [A] for some parts of stdlib. That is what we are discussing ;) Regards, B.D.