From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T16:12:29+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Issue


On Jun 28, 2005, at 7:20 AM, Patrick Fernie wrote:

> Ah, this makes sense. Will the patched require eventually load by the
> gem library name? This seems a little more natural, but then again I

No, afaik, it won't. I don't think it is more "natural" either. If  
anything, require_gem will be renamed to something that conveys the  
orthogonality better.

> suppose it leads to the problem of maintaining gemified and
> non-gemified versions (whereas using the straight library name
> doesn't). I suppose if I had paid more attention to the
> documentation/examples provided by the gems I install, this would have
> been obvious.

Oh, I wouldn't go that far. ;)


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