On Dec 21, 2007 10:24 AM, Gonzalo Garramuñï <ggarra / advancedsl.com.ar> wrote:
> Jim Weirich wrote:
> > Just a heads up here.  I've added Rake (version 0.8.0 ... the latest) to
> > the Ruby SVN repository.
> >
> > Enjoy.
> >
>
> Yuck.
>
> For what it is worth, I'll add my vote for unbundling rake as a gem and
> removing it from SVN.
>
> Rake is not really a core library or utility that it should be added as
> part of ruby core.
>
> Also, it has no compilable code in it, which makes it trivial to install
> or update with gem install.

The core-team asked for this back in early October.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/12383

Quite a bit of discussion ensued back then about whether this should
be part of the library directly, or a pre-installed gem, in the end,
as far as I can see by re-reading the thread this was left up to Jim,
and it appears he took the first path.

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Rick DeNatale

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