From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-02-18T06:48:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:45:47 +0900, Masayoshi Takahashi wrote:
> Hello all,

> Matz mentioned three points to decide to add as standard with:

> * need
> * maturity
> * maintainer

> and we should review the candidates enough.

> Kawaji recommended rss library made by Kouhei Sutou, and Sutou agreed to
> be a mainteiner.

No offense to Sutou intended, but I do not see a reason why an RSS library 
should be included with Ruby by default. (And I'm not saying this as someone 
who wrote a "competing" RSS library; I haven't touched mine in over a year 
and I don't know that I expect to do so, either.)

I think it would be useful to have ruby-dbi, but my personal opinion is that 
Ruby doesn't need to be PHP, where everything comes "out of the box."

Just my 2�
-austin
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