Issue #18381 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). Status changed from Assigned to Closed This has been documented in doc/standard_library.rdoc. ---------------------------------------- Bug #18381: Default vs Bundled gems https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18381#change-104357 * Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) * ruby -v: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-12-01 master 0b53a8895f) [x86_64-linux] * Backport: 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Could there be documented what is the difference between default and bundled gems? E.g. * Are the Bundled gems considered a part of StdLib or not? * What is general strategy for the future, seeing more and more gems moving from default to bundled gems in Ruby 3.1 * Default gems does not need to be listed in Gemfile where Bundled gems needs to be listed in Gemfile * Default gems can be used without RubyGems where Bundled gems requires RubyGems -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/