From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T02:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: A wishlist for a "Ruby Standard Library"

Guerry Semones wrote:
> To play devil's advocate here, I'd rather have more of a CPAN type of
> solution available, where it is easy to acquire and install modules,
> rather than have them all bundled into the "official" distribution.
> 
> The whole Java experience has soured me on the concept of fat
> distributions.

I think it would be good to have a package with only the interpreter
(and maybe the apache module) and another package which contains a few
of the most important libraries from a ruby-CTAN. The point is that it
should be possible to get everything you need for 90% of the ruby
programs on _one_ download site.