Jim Weirich wrote:
> I don't mind packaging rake as a preinstalled gem.  In fact, it makes 
> better sense in my mind as well.

For what it's worth, I don't think there's any chance of us installing 
rake directly into JRuby for a future release; that's just too much 
hassle and too much bother when we want to upgrade it. rake should be a 
gem, and as others here have said a whole bunch of other standard 
libraries should be gems too.

(and for a selfish reason as well: we (JRuby) wouldn't have to muck 
about updating our local copy of the stdlib if most of the stdlib were 
just installable gems...we'd just install the gems during build)

- Charlie