From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T21:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.6.1

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:35:14 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> 
> 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"
> 



Yea, that would really help in this case, wouldn't it?

Chad