From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-14T03:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

On Oct 13, 2007, at 08:00 , NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> Matz, ko1 and akr, do you think that (c) includes gem version  
>>> control, for example 'gem "soap4r", "1.5.5"' ?  Need to confirm  
>>> the requirement of core team first.
>>
>> Please see my notes in [ruby-core:12644].  If RubyGems itself  
>> makes improvements in the capabilities of require 'rubygems' it  
>> benefits all RubyGems users, including those still using Ruby 1.8,  
>> so I would like to explore making RubyGems lighter as much as  
>> possible before resorting to a Ruby 1.9-only solution.
>
> Definitely.  I want to make sure what they call 'tiny library only for
> finding gems'.  If it means 'RubyGems minus gem command', 0.9.4.5  
> should be enough though I've not yet checked it.  If not?

Ok.  Please keep me up to date on this.  If 0.9.4.5 is not good  
enough I can explore making it even lighter.

--
Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The
best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars