From: zdennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T13:09:50+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML Update Please

Sean E. Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:56, James Britt wrote:
> 
>>>|I submitted this as an RCR, but I didn't know that RCR's aren't for the
>>>| stdlib. Matz commented on the proposal and mentioned that mneumann was
>>>| the maintainer. Is there a way to tell who maintains what library, or
>>>| should I just post to ruby-core (or should i post to ruby-talk)?
>>>
>>>Usually, ruby-core should be fine.  Unfortunately we haven't seen
>>>mneumann recently.
>>
>>Isn't Sean looking after REXML?
> 
> 
> Yes, I am.  Michael's done a lot of work on Ruby libs, but he's not to blame 
> for REXML.
> 
> I haven't looked at the RCRs for a while though, so any discussion about it 
> there has gone over my head.  I'll try to make time to look at it this 
> weekend.
> 

No, there is no RCR. It got closed. The request is my original posting which started this thread. I 
just want one line of code added, so the method 'length' aliases 'size' on the REXML::Elements class 
so it acts more like an array object. Seems intuivite that it would. Thanks,

Zach