[Ironruby-core] Separating standard libraries from builtin

[Ryan Riley]

Would a multi-file assembly be a good fit for this? I haven't worked much
with them, so I'm not sure about including multiple namespaces within one,
but I would imagine it's entirely possible.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Michael Letterle <
michael.letterle at gmail.com> wrote:

> It may not be /too/ bad if the intent is to load the CLR code, but not
> expose it to the ruby runtime until a "require" is called for that
> library.. though I agree, I'd rather have it implemented as separate
> dlls.  This also becomes relevant when we start talking about IronRuby
> and silverlight, not all silverlight apps are going to need all
> libraries (or even most) keeping it small is important, but if a
> library is needed it shouldn't need to take a bunch of baggage with
> it.
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Wayne Kelly <w.kelly at qut.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >  Are you suggesting that long term - modules like digest and openssl
> remain in the IronRuby.Libraries and be automatically loaded at startup?
> >
> >  I had assumed that this was just a temporary hack and I think long term
> it is the wrong way to go. There are both performance and compatibility
> arguments ... Firstly, the overhead of loading non-builtin modules such as
> digest should only be incurred for those applications that explicitly choose
> to require it. Secondly, by automatically loading such modules, we are
> poluting the global namespace and setting up possible collisions with
> programmer created classes.
> >  In general, loading a module can have side effects. At present there
> are only a handful of such modules, but long term there will be dozens, if
> not hundreds. Matz should be the one that decides which modules get loaded
> automatically and which require explicit loading.
> >
> >  Cheers, Wayne.
> >
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org
> >  > [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of
> >  > Tomas Matousek
> >  > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 11:38 AM
> >  > To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
> >  > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Opening up our tree to external
> >  > committers
> >  >
> >  > I don't think we should go crazy and create one dll per
> >  > library. Loading dlls has some overhead. Since digest and
> >  > openssl are just IronRuby stubs for functionality already
> >  > implemented in BCL, it could be in one dll. I need to figure
> >  > out how to do loading of Ruby libraries contained in an
> >  > assembly, but I think it could be done.
> >  >
> >  > Tomas
> >  >
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org
> >  > [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Kelly
> >  > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:40 PM
> >  > To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
> >  > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Opening up our tree to external
> >  > committers
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > For consistency, can we also separate the other standard
> >  > libraries such as digest, openssl, etc (that require explicit
> >  > loading) into separate assemblies?
> >  > This of course, first requires us to be able to load such assemblies.
> >  >
> >  > There will of course be an ever increasing set of such
> >  > libraries, so it would be nice to have a relatively
> >  > lightweight process to allow such new directories/libraries
> >  > to be created.
> >  >
> >  > Note, some of these libraries might be implemented using a
> >  > combination of Ruby and C# code.
> >  >
> >  > I hope this mechanism will enable people to upload prototypes
> >  > of what they're working on, so that we don't need to wait
> >  > until something is complete and polished before seeing it.
> >  >
> >  > Perhaps we could have a generic IronRuby.Misc that people
> >  > could create directories  beneath initially, which could then
> >  > be moved to top level status once they've matured.
> >  >
> >  > Cheers, Wayne.
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