From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-18T04:28:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

Leonard Chin wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 2007, at 07:14 , NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:
>>> 1-1-2. As a feature loading system, letting 'multiple versions
>>> aware feature loading' be an official Ruby language specification
>>> imposes too much restriction to unborn feature loading systems.
>> How so?  Or do you mean vs. other possible multiple version aware
>> feature loading systems.
> 
> Since there seems to be some confusion, here's a re-translation of
> this part of [ruby-dev:32061]
> 
> 1-1-2: enabling rubygems by default, and hence endorsing it as part of
> the official Ruby language specification, imposes restrictions on
> future possible feature loading system implementations. Specifically,
> such new systems will need to support version aware future loading.
> (... possibly raising the bar too high?)

I agree wholeheartedly with this part. A better require/plugin mechanism 
needs to be created before committing to having RubyGems loaded by default.

- Charlie