From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-18T05:38:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:28 , Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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.

You mean like the one in r13580 mentioned in [ruby-core:13232]?

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