From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T01:31:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32442] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems?

On 16/09/10 at 16:07 +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 22:59 , Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't custom rubies and custom stdlibs give the impression that a
> > distributor is distributing a crippled version of ruby, if the
> > distributor provides only the core, and each stdlib library as a
> > separate package?
> 
> You mean like debian/ubuntu have been doing for years on end? Apparently, this isn't actually a problem.

This is not true. From what I understand, you want to go much further
than just splitting off big libraries that add additional dependencies,
like the tk library, for example. It would result in a myriad of
packages, which was the case in Debian pre-2005, and received bad press
on this list. I'm a bit surprised that you now consider that it is not a
big problem.

- Lucas