> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue / gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 5:39 AM
> To: ruby-core / ruby-lang.org
> Subject: [ruby-core:19016] Re: Let Ruby be Ruby
> 

<snip>
 
> No, there is definitely value in having a wide subset of 
> functionality in the Ruby standard library. I don't always 
> agree with what's there (namely, what's missing vs. what's 
> present, and the way or the why certain libraries were 
> chosen), but Ruby doesn't benefit from taking a Linux 
> distribution approach.

Couldn't we have it both ways by bundling the standard library as gems
from the get go?

Regards,

Dan


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