From: Chad Fowler Date: 2005-04-18T05:14:00+09:00 Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby? On 4/17/05, Saynatkari wrote: > > Le 17/4/2005, "Chad Fowler" a �crit: > >On 4/17/05, Navindra Umanee wrote: > >> David Heinemeier Hansson 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')? > See Jim Weirich's reply to this thread for reasoning not to change :require's semantics. -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 100,000 gems served!)