From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T03:55:27+09:00
Subject: Re: RI Conceptional Showstopper Bug.

Quoting mailinglists@scriptolutions.com, on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:56:49PM +0900:
> I think it is a huge failure of the ruby core team to accept a tool
> of this low quality and put it as one of the core technologies into the
> ruby core. But i'm too tired to talk about this issues again and again.
> Maybe we should look at better working communities, for example Guido
> still does not bundle pychecker (a good tool) with the language
> runtime as it is not of high enough quality. I think the ruby people
> should have the same high quality commitment as python.

Yeah, but if there wasn't a good doc tool in the core, then you'd be
griping about that. ri needs work, we all know that, but whinging about
it isn't going to make it get done faster.

Dave put some energy and code back into ruby while working on his
commercial projects. What have you put back into ruby while working on
your IDE? I don't see anything on RAA from you, I hope you've been
contributing lots of patches.

Comparing maturity of ruby tools to languages that have existed for a
lot longer, and have a lot more commercial backing, is completely lame.

It's called "ruby", not "athena", it didn't leap forth into the world
from the mind of matz fully grown, it is developing into something
beautiful through slow, hard work.

Cheers,
Sam