From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2007-10-18T08:12:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Include Rake in Ruby 1.9 On 10/17/07, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Oct 17, 2007, at 04:56 , Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 10/15/07, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote: > >> Yes. Generally we committers need to keep the stable branch "stable" > >> (there's no actual svn branch for 1.9 though). Release maintainer > >> will > >> restrict incompatible change of the bundled version of Rake. (feature > >> adding must be allowed as far as it's compatible with former > >> versions.) And when an user installs a new version of Rake with > >> RubyGems, the user cannot activate the new gem without declaring 'gem > >> "rake"' explicitly. > > > > That's a problem, since most people don't work with Rake as a library, > > but as a binary. There's no viable way to do "gem 'rake'" from the > > command-line. > This is a feature of gems. > > $ rake --version > rake, version 0.7.3 > $ rake _0.7.2_ --version > rake, version 0.7.2 Only works for a rake stub that uses RubyGems. NaHi is talking about rake in bin with the libraries in lib (not site_lib, not gem). So, there's no viable way to do "gem 'rake'" from the command-line. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca