From: Euan Mee <lucid@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T11:20:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17957] Re: Movement in scripting language communities to integrate XML-RPC

On 17/7/1, Michael Neumann wrote (more or less):
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote (more or less):
> > On 16/7/1, Guerry Semones wrote (more or less):
> >> have Matz, and the Ruby community, considered the
> >> possibility of web service enabling Ruby "out of the box"
> >> by including [Ruby XML-RPC & SOAP4R] in the standard
> >> distribution? 
> 
> > I think it's good to include these libraries - I call for
> > public review of any libraries which people want
> > to incorporate in the standard distribution
> 
> XML-RPC and SOAP depend on other libraries, e.g. NQXML or
> XMLParser, application.rb and others. So at least NQXML needs
> to be included, too. Plus XML-RPC and SOAP are still
> frequently changed. 
> 
> Specialist add-on packs - e.g. one for XML-related
> tasks, another for WWW, etc. - would be more interesting

IMO, it would be best if these add-on packs were 
standardised, and available from the standard distro's 
distribution points - essentially making them option-packs in 
the standard distro.




Cheers,
     Euan
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