From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T23:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & b

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:06:50 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
Nice ideas.  One note below...

>   1. Make RubyGems transactional. This is one of the things that I
>      think that Mauricio got absolutely right. As it stands now, I
>      think that it is possible for a RubyGem install to fail in the
>      middle and leave me in a state where I can partially include
>      something.
> 
>   2. Make RubyGems aware of the package files that it owns. This is
>      what RPA did to ensure that it could install the library into
>      the core library area without breaking anything else.
> 
>   3. Provide patches to 1.8.x and probably 1.9 that would replace
>      the require functionality with the RubyGems require, but
>      faster. See the RubyGems/rails performance boost tip someone
>      (Jamis?) found some time back. That startup performance hit is
>      a strong negative against RubyGems. RPA didn't face this
>      because it *did* put the package files in the core.
> 

If you go back and look at Jamis's post, you'll see that he was
running an older version of RubyGems at the time and the performance
issues had already been fixed.


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