From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T20:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: About circular dependencies in RubyGems (the library). And about the order in $".

> Can you file a bug for me in the rubygems tracker?

Done.

gegroet,
Erik V.


On 8/7/08, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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