From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-08-07T08:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: About circular dependencies in RubyGems (the library). And about the order in $".

On Aug 1, 2008, at 06:54 AM, Erik Veenstra wrote:
> There's a circular dependency in RubyGems. I mean in the
> library itself, not in the collection of gems.
>
> Try this:
>
> $ RUBYOPT= ruby -e 'require "rubygems/exceptions"'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:19:
> uninitialized constant Gem::Exception (NameError)

Yes, I could merge rubygems/exception.rb back into the appropriate  
places, but got lazy during my refactor.  Can you file a bug for me in  
the rubygems tracker?

> [...]
>
> Question: Is it possible to investigate the exact order in which
> libraries are required correctly? Obviously $" won't work. We
> can't wrap Kernel#require either, since you'll miss the
> libraries which are required on the command line or in $RUBYOPT.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions/comments?

I'm not sure what a good general solution to this problem is.