On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:26 AM, botanicus <stas...@101ideas.cz> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm wondering about future of AS and Extlib. I heard that these two > should be merged (so extlib will actually die), which makes sense > since these two are sort of similar so we can have just one main > library with Ruby stdlib extensions. > > However would this library be suitable for smaller frameworks like > Ramaze or Rango? In current Rails 3 activesupport/lib has 2.8 MB and > 52 415 lines (via wc -l) which is more than 20x times bigger than the > whole Rango, so it's not an option for me (as I'm the author of > Rango). > > I was talking to Pavel Kunc who currently maintain Merb and it seems > he would like also something significantly smaller. > > So what we are suggesting is to keep extlib for these really basic > things like cattr_*, String#to_snakecase etc and everything else put > into activesupport which will be builded on top of extlib. > > So everyone should be happy: > 1) There would be just one extensions library (well, one small and > one big, but the point is it's still DRY) > 2) Rails will have AS, so Rails will be happy and smaller frameworks > will have extlib, so they could be happy as well. > > In case you guys won't like this idea, there would be need for smaller > extension library, so someone (probably me) will write it and code > duplication, welcome back. > > So what do you think?
Active Support's baseline resource consumption is nearly zero. It now boots faster, creates fewer objects, and allocates less memory than extlib. Why is wc -l your measure? Best, jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
