On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > For what it's worth, we've caught hell from the ruby community for > breaking the standard library in to its component parts and not > installing it all by default. This problem has been largely abrogated > as of late, but I'd rather not see us piss off the python community > for making a similar mistake.
I believe the problem with the ruby situation wasn't that the monolithic ruby distribution was split up; but that there was no clear way to install the lot in one go, without prior knowledge of what the whole distribution was: a simple meta-package with the correct dependencies was all that was missing. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]