From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T18:58:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

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Hi,

I think there's a consensus about the need.  Nobu's idea is here;
(translation of [ruby-dev:31321])

  Following is an abstract processes of the current behavior of require;

    def require_internal(feature)
      exts = loadable_exts(feature)
      found = nil
      $LOAD_PATH.find {|path| found = find_file(path, feature, exts)} or
        raise LoadError, "no such file to load -- %s", feature
      load_file(found)
    end

  And a proposal is that when a path from $LOAD_PATH is not a String, do
  the following.

    path.find_file(feature, exts)
    found.load_file()

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> 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.

Do you have an actual example?  RubyGems replaces require and
Rails(ActiveSupport) overrides it but they live together.  I think Rails
took care of rubygems' behavior.

Regards,
// NaHi

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