From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-08-31T02:29:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31950] Re: Avoiding $LOAD_PATH pollution

> Last year Nobu asked me to propose an API for adding an object to
> $LOAD_PATH (instead of a String) that could do the work of finding paths
> to load. �The reason was to avoid the pollution of $LOAD_PATH that
> RubyGems causes as it activates multiple gems.

what's wrong with polluting $LOAD_PATH?  It's what you can use to
determine which versions of gems have been activated...



-r