From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-03-05T01:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gems, and the require problem (was Re: RAA Status & b)

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:43:45 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ultimately, I agree with you. Ruby needs RubyGems in the core as a
> replacement to require without doing 'require "rubygems"'. But it
> does solve a very real problem, and it solves it reasonably well.
> 

Well put.  I think a lot of the fire would fade out of this debate if 
RubyGems were integrated into Ruby in such a way that it didn't
require anything "special" to work.  That has always been our hope and
intent.

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