From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-05-30T06:58:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15965] Re: Ruby Standard and Enterprise Edition


Bryan Zarnett wrote:
> 
> One of the best "marketing" things that Java did was there standard and
> enterprise edition bundles. Maybe this is something we should do with
> ruby as well.  The core idea would be that we would not have to compile
> all those important libraries over and over again.
...
> I was thinking the following bundles:
> 
> 1. Standard Edition -- Just ruby and the core Libraries (and ruby unit)
> 2. Advanced Edition -- includes XML, XSL
> 3. Enterprise Edition -- includes the LDAP,DBD:DBI,  mod_ruby, eRuby
...
> Considering the libraries are in such flux, it would not be expected to
> make a new release with each library but for the first while we might do
> a new release every three or six months.
...
> Any thoughts? Any volunteers?
> 


I doubt the community at large would do this. But it sounds like a 
great idea for an open-source ruby company :-)  
"RedGem"? "RubyCare"? "VARuby"? "ActiveRuby"?

Actually, while I wouldn't actually use those names, I am in favor 
of the idea of a company having a model akin to the ones inferred.


Guy N. Hurst



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