From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2001-12-13T15:00:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28387] RE:  RAA.succ  (?)

> From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:28358] RAA.succ (?)
>
>
> At RubyConf2001, there were many good ideas
> captured for RAA.succ...
>
> 1. Where is this all stored publicly, or is it? I *thought*
> it was at rubygarden.org, but I don't see it now...
>
> 2. Who decides what ideas or functionality to implement?
> Matz alone? Matz plus a committee? Committee
> appointed by Matz?
>
> 3. In what order does this all get implemented? Who does
> the work, and who steers the process?
>
> Just asking...
>
> RAA.succ is one of the foremost things I believe in... others
> being the (related) RubyGems idea and the Ruby IDE
> (in particular the project Curt Hibbs is starting based on
> Eclipse).


I couldn't agree more. As I understand it, RubyGems will enable us to
package standardized Ruby components and Ruby applications. Having a
standard format for deploying components and applications will be the
crucial feature that allows Ruby to rapidly grow beyond its current niche.
And having all of those wonderful easy-to-reuse components and applications
won't be worth much if the people who need them can't easily find them.

It makes sense for these features (RubyGems and RAA.succ) to be directly
supported by the Ruby IDE. The IDE should be able to deploy a ruby project
as a RubyGem at the click of a button (or press of a keystroke). Similarly,
the IDE should be able to maintain meta information about the project
(descriptive text, RAA.succ compatible categories, etc.) that would make
submission of the project to RAA.succ another simple click of a button.

Of course, non of this can happen until RubyGems and RAA.succ exist.

Curt