From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T15:34:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems imported into 1.9 trunk

Eric Hodel wrote:

>> Will installed gems be found if we don't do a 'require gem'?
> 
> Installed gems can be loaded without require 'rubygems' first.
> 
>> I know there was a discussion of having some kind of small gem-aware 
>> loader with a smaller footprint than the real thing.  Did this happen?
> 
> Yes.  The paths of the latest installed gem versions will be added to 
> the load path on ruby startup.

But we're still waiting for a gem_prelude.rb to be checked in to make 
this work, I gather.

>> Does it  support version numbers?
> 
> No.  You'll use Kernel#gem to specify explicit versions as always.

And Kernel#gem has not been moved into the core, correct?  That is, we 
still need to require 'rubygems' to get the gem method?

Thanks for continuing to clarify,

	David