From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-18T10:24:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

Evan Phoenix wrote:
> 
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> I think they went with r13580 instead...
> 
> Thats only one part of the solution though. Everything that wants to 
> hook into Kernel#require is still required to alias the existing 
> implementation, implement their own Kernel#require as a wrapper.
> 
> Have some kind of simple hook infrastructure that Kernel#require used 
> would eliminate everyone patching Kernel#require.

...and frequently breaking everyone else's hook in the process.

- Charlie