On Sep 28, 2008, at 3:19 PM, hemant wrote:

> Getting your library in stdlib means, you are mostly
> handling over reins to someone else.

I don't think this has to be true.

My CSV (formerly FasterCSV) library was added to the standard library  
last December.  I have continued to maintain it since then including a  
big rewrite of the parser to add m17n support.

Thus, I think this depends entirely on the contributor.  I personally  
feel a little more pressure to keep CSV running well now that it ships  
with Ruby.  I would rather not see people saying, "That new CSV  
library sucks!" :)

> Bundling of many libraries within stdlib has sorta killed
> competetion (net/http for instance).

FasterCSV and mini/unit were both developed with CSV and test/unit  
being in the standard library.  They gained enough traction to replace  
the libraries they improved upon in this release.  Again, this doesn't  
seem to be a universal truth.

James Edward Gray II