From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-01-05T14:48:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34079] Re: proposal: gem_prelude needs to die


On Jan 4, 2011, at 20:10 , Tanaka Akira wrote:

> 2011/1/4 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:
> 
>> I'd like to drop gem_prelude down to 'require "rubygems"'. If you want, we can profile this against normal and pathological gem setups first.
> 
> I replaced trunk gem_prelude.rb as follows.
> 
>  % cat gem_prelude.rb
>  require 'rubygems'
> 
> Then make fails.
> 
>  % make
>  ...
>  Generating RDoc documentation
>  /home/akr/ruby/g/new2/ruby/lib/rubygems.rb:12:in `<top (required)>':
> uninitialized constant Gem::QuickLoader (NameError)
> 	  from <internal:gem_prelude>:1:in `require'
> 	  from <internal:gem_prelude>:1:in `<compiled>'
>  make: *** [rdoc] Error 1

Huh... It builds for me on r30453. Ah. no it doesn't... just if I do `make ruby19`.

I can't comment (well) on that error yet. rubygems in trunk is 1.3.7 + 1763 lines of diff and I haven't finished reviewing / merging the changes back into our repo.

It is probably some of this code (rubygems.rb):

> unless gem_disabled
>   # Nuke the Quickloader stuff
>   Gem::QuickLoader.remove
> end

Or something similar.

Which doesn't exist in rubygems 1.3.7, only in trunk 1.3.7.