From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T22:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems TODO

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On 22-Sep-05, at 7:22 AM, Mauricio Fern=E1ndez wrote:
>
> Still, while
>   use_gem 'X' # X =3D=3D RubyGems package name
> is not harmful repackaging-wise, I'm unconvinced about its relative
> merits compared to for instance
>   require 'x', "1.2"    # x =3D name of .rb or ext file
>

What I don't like about the latter is that it's not semantically =20
equivalent to the former.  I don't want version 1.2 of "x".  I want =20
version 1.2 of "X" with
whatever version of "x" it comes with.

I prefer the former.

Chad=

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