From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T09:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleaning up...

On Wed 23 Apr 2003 at 08:02:09 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:

> There an interesting situation developing. As people contribute 
> additional library code to the standard distribution, we end up in the 
> situation where we have a lot of duplication (for example cgi-lib vs. 
> cgi, forwardable vs. delegate, fileutils vs. ftools, Date.strprime vs 
> Time.strptime, getoptlong vs. getopts) and so on. We also have some 
> strange design issues (for example DateTime has the most powerful time 
> parsing routines, but no way of generating a Time object). All this 
> leads to confusion: as a newcomer to Ruby, am I supposed to use ftools 
> or fileutils, for example.

At the very least, the docs should deprecate one and advocate the other.
I've never used forwardable or delegate, so off-hand, I wouldn't even
know which one was newer. 

Ian
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