From: Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T04:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby?


Le 17/4/2005, "Chad Fowler" <chadfowler@gmail.com> a �crit:
>On 4/17/05, Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> wrote:
>> > Of course, when RubyGems is included in 1.8.3 (hopefully or, pain,
>> > pain, 1.8.4), I think that's when RubyGems will make its mark for
>> > increasing the first-time visit of libraries on newbies coming to Ruby.
>> 
>> Oh no, RubyGems is going to be included by default in Ruby? :(
>> 
>> No offense, but I would really hate to *have* to use those stupid
>> looking RubyGem requires to use Ruby libraries...
>> 
>
>You miss the point:  if RubyGems were included in Ruby's default
>distribution, it would be integrated, and you'd never have to use
>require_gem again (though, you could still use require_gem to load a
>specific version of a library).

Does not sound that well-integrated :) Maybe #require could
take an additional parameter or simply magick out a version
string from require('mylib-2.03')?

>Chad Fowler

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