From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-07-03T07:53:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31010] Re: [Bug #3140] gem activation has changed between 1.8 and 1.9


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On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 07:48:04AM +0900, Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We are about to ship a version of Ruby with a built in package manager =
with
> > the following property:
> >
> > Given a package X with dependency Y, attempting to load X might require
> > dependency Z without any warning.
> >
> > There is literally no other distribution of anything that would not con=
sider
> > that property a major show-stopper. I am baffled about how this bug has
> > existed in the tracker so long, is considered "normal" priority, and ha=
s now
> > been bumped to 1.9.3 at the earliest.
>=20
> While I agree with Yehuda that this is a bug that is high priority and
> should be addressed in 1.9.2, I don't agree on the solutions.
>=20
> I still wonder what is the reason of gem_prelude to exist, and if just
> to avoid require 'rubygems', why not document the usage of
> RUBYOPT=3Drubygems and get over it?
>=20
> gem_prelude has not provided any value at all and instead added lot of
> magic to the require process.

I have to agree.  I'm still trying to figure out the utility of
gem_prelude while sifting through code and attempting to resolve this
issue.

Why do we have gem prelude?

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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