From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T02:11:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems is over engineered

Interesting brainstorming Hugh.

I think it may help if we break this down to the fundamentals. Imagine
if we had no $LOAD_PATH. Imagine we had to spell everything out in
absolutes. But we don't know where exactly our files are going to end
up on the end system. How do we account for this? Well, we need a map
--a map of aliases my scripts will use to refer to it's contents (and
others can use to refer to it) that point to actual locations.

I've worked out a partial solution. I'll release it soon. But it only
does the mapping internally for the lib/ dir. To go beyond that really
means modifying Ruby to handle this more gracefully as well as adding a
tool to help generate distribution specific maps based on the alias map
provided by the developers.

In essense giving Ruby a file registry system.

T.