"Conrad Schneiker" <schneik / us.ibm.com> writes:

> # So, I'm proposing that we include these in the Ruby core, and
> # therefore make them globally available. The expat license allows this,
> # so I suspect the main problem might be one of size (expat will add
> # about 200k to the download).
> 
> Hmm. Where have I seen this before. Maybe it was in:
> 
>
>     http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/11619

Ah, but it wasn't an RCR. :)

> Where almost 100 hours ago Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> 
> # IMHO, all future Ruby distributions (tgz, InstallShield) ought to be 
> # "XML-ready" out of the box.

The Installshield version actually does bundle xmlparser, so for once
the Windows version is ahead of the game.


But, 'tis true. I should have referenced back to Conrad's eloquent
post in the RCR. To be honest, the last week has been a blur, so it
totally slipped my mind.

Mike: if you decide to add this one, could you credit Conrad with the 
idea.



Dave