From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T02:50:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32446] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems?


On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:42, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I see this decision (shipping Ruby's stdlib as gems) as a step in the
>>> right direction toward making everything much easier to manage.
>> Yes, I don't disagree with the principle, I'm raising issues to help us reach a direction that will not introduce a slew of new problems. This area has a wide range of platform, policy, and technical issues that must be carefully addressed in order to get it right. If we don't it won't be a step forward, it'll be another 2-5 years of breakage and variance on many major platforms.
> 
> Then I suggest that the people who have the knowledge and interest
> (not me, sorry; I have neither at this point) produce patches to
> RubyGems that will fix this problem once and for all.

It's already on my list of work to do to RubyGems, now I've just gotta find/make the time. After the hurricane and moving countries (again) though I shall expect.