From: "Henderson, Michael D" <michael.d.henderson@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T08:52:28+09:00
Subject: RE: Multiple .rb versions support

From: Chris Morris [mailto:chrismo@clabs.org]

>You mean if
> A -> B
> A -> C
> B -> D v.1
> C -> D v.2
>
>That would be a problem ... but that would be a problem regardless of what
>version loading mechanism was in place. The problem's not any easier
without
>a version loading mechanism -- a version loading structure could at least
>help track down the problem here.

On the bright side, a complaint from the loader at this point would prevent
us from entering the equivalent of dll-hell. It would be nice knowing up
front that the lib's requirements are conflicting.