From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T19:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.6.1

Chad Fowler wrote:

> I agree, but we're using --version to specify gem versions.  I think
> it makes sense to minimize typing for this operation as opposed to
> finding out the rubygems version, since the former will be used a lot
> more.  Do you think we need to alias --rubygems-version or something?

There has been some talk about rearranging the gem option structure to 
mirror cvs, e.g.   gem install --remote, or gem list --local.  Cvs will 
differentiate between options on the "cvs" command, and options on the 
sub-commands.  In that case, we could support both ...

     gem --version
and
     gem install gem-name --version ">= 1.0"

BTW, I favor the move to a cvs-like command structure (if anyone asks).

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