From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T05:07:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Log4r 1.0.5 now with RubyGems option

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, gabriele renzi wrote:

# il Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:26:55 +0900, Chad Fowler <chad@chadfowler.com>
# ha scritto::
# 
# >
# >On Mar 18, 2004, at 7:09 AM, gabriele renzi wrote:
# 
# >>
# >> er.. I'd like to say to you the version of gem I'm running but I don't
# >> know how :) (it's not the latest, but the previous one).
# >>
# >
# >Do you mean you want to say the version of the RubyGems package or the 
# >gem itself? 
# 
# no, the version of RubyGems I'm using. I mean, obviously I can't do a
# gem -v or --version, but a 
# --rubygems-version would be useful, imo. (I finally found
# RubyGemsVersion ='1.0', myabe this is the actual pkg version)
# 

We'll put that in the next release.  We were actually planning to use that 
number to specify the gemspec format, but I think it will serve your 
purpose.

# 
# Another strange thins in the options is that 
# --help works as expected, while -h asks for a missing argument. 
# Looking at the gem executable it seem that there is no -h switch, how
# this came out ?
# 
# PS
# I just noticed tha the same happens for -r, -s and -v says it's
# ambiguos, so this may be just an automagical feature to use short
# options for longer ones. But it's undocumented, and confusing.
# ..
# 

Yea, we have to explicitly setup short versions for all of the commands.  
We've been inconsistent about that so far.  The current CVS sports a 
significantly cleaned up help screen (thanks Gavin Sinclair).  We'll also 
need to add short versions of all of the commands, but it should generally 
be less confusing now.

Thanks,
Chad