From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-01-21T06:51:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34687] Re: Importing rubygems 1.5.0 (release candidate) into trunk.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> minor is the keyword there. 1700 lines of diff is not minor. at about 200ish lines of diff, I think the version should be changed. What 1.9.2 has been calling rubygems 1.3.7 is NOT rubygems 1.3.7. Yet, _we_ get the bugs and _we_ have to debug it and _we_ have to maintain it. Not fair.

Yes, we've taken pains to ensure our larger changes (like Maven
support) are in a separate file, reducing the size of our diffs from
RubyGems. We have not patched individual issues, but in case we do
we'd handle it by making the commit locally and filing a bug/request
with RubyGems. Seems like the only logical way to handle it, and
having or own fork (as is really the case with ruby-core) makes it
much easier to keep up *and* submit patches back.

- Charlie