From: Eric Hodel Date: 2011-03-17T08:56:06+09:00 Subject: Re: The future of the character-encodings library On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > Eric, could you please reply to all in the future? No. I don't know two of the email addresses in your To header so I can't judge if my response is topical for them. The third appears to be a mailing list to which I am not subscribed. I don't wish to fend off possible "you must subscribe" bounces. > I have “skip” set for this mailing list I don't know what this means. I think it means that you don't want to see messages from this mailing list. If this is true why did you post to it? > as, as you point out below, it’s rather high in noise. I don't see where I made this assertion. > It makes it rather hard to stitch things together when I can’t easily reply to your reply. I don't see why I should be inconvenienced to make it easier for you to see responses you do not want to see. > Eric Hodel wrote: >> On Mar 16, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >>> Could any of the users of this library please provide me with some input on this point. >>> >>> I’m looking forward to receiving your input! > >> There don't appear to be many users of character-encodings: >> >> https://rubygems.org/gems/character-encodings > > I don’t see how this is relevant, but thank you for pointing out my > failure in selling and maintaining my library. I was attempting to suggest that since there aren't many downloads for your gem maybe there's no need for you to continue to maintain it in its current form (if at all). Some of the functionality of your gem has been taken up by ruby 1.9. Anyone seriously considering handling encodings other than US ASCII should move to 1.9. I would rebuild character-encodings atop 1.9 if I were in the maintainer and had such a need. Due to the low number of downloads you have an excellent opportunity to throw out your existing API and rebuild your library to integrate well with the encoding features of ruby 1.9. I don't see why you would consider a low number of downloads to be any failure on your part. I simply made a statement of fact. I have many, many gems that nobody uses and I no longer maintain. It would be ridiculous for me to attempt to attach any judgements to such a fact.