From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-02-12T08:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826"
    on 04/02/12, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

|> Matz disagree to make the require method load libraries
|> with relative path, but he allowed other method to do it.
|> Some details are not determined yet:
|> 
|>   * name
|>   * handling of symbolic link
|>
|> In addition, Tanaka made an advice to record the full path
|> in $:. Matz agreed and promised to implement it when
|> he has a time to do.
|
|For the record, I really like both of these ideas; they would completely
|eliminate the use I have for requirelocal/loadlocal in RubyTreasures.

Any name suggestion?

|>   [ruby-dev:22790] avoid duplicate load/require in Win32
|> 
|> In relation to the previous topic, take_tk made a request to ignore
|> cases of library path in the file system which didn't distinguish
|> cases. But Matz felt he should take case of case of path when
|> he uses case-insensitive platform, and rejected the request.
|
|What is "case of case of path"?

Read "Matz felt one should care about case of path even when he/she
uses case-insensitive platform".

							matz.