From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T23:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyForge project and gem distriubtion


> I do like the distinction that Mauricio has made
> between RPA and
> RubyGems. RubyGems, to be completely useful, has to
> be The Standard.
> Ideally, it will also be incorporated into the core
> of Ruby --
> hopefully eliminating the need for require_gem. (I
> still don't like
> the idea of requiring the gem name, rather than the
> gem's nominal
> require statement -- e.g., diff-lcs rather than
> diff/lcs.) RPA, on
> the other hand, since it works on entire
> "libraries", doesn't need
> to be the standard. Both approaches have merit, and
> while I hope
> that something can be done to integrate both
> approaches as I don't
> *really* want to have to have both on my computer as
> a user, I don't
> have an issue with doing that for the moment.
> 
> -austin

They are both too early to even be considered to be a
part of Ruby-core. They are both too young, each are
still unstable. Both are constantly making big
changes. There needs to be more time. Maybe a year or
so?

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