From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T23:56:20+09:00
Subject: Re: A wishlist for a "Ruby Standard Library"

> An alternative to this would be to include "stub" files for all 
> versions of all libraries and, if a new application or library needed a 
> particular library, the installer could go get it. In this case, the 
> fat distribution wouldn't actually be "distributed" until an element 
> was needed.

The problem with this is that in a shared-hosting environ, the chances
of it actually having permissions is pretty minimal...

Ari