From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2010-09-16T23:46:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32433] Re: Can we convert the standard library to gems?


On 16 Sep 2010, at 07:11, Joshua Ballanco wrote:
> What about an option for RubyGems similar to the "--pre" switch? Standard Library "Blessed" gems could be retrieved by passing the "--stdlib=1.9.1" option to the gem command.

This kind of selective option wouldn't stop users shooting themselves with `gem update` with future releases.