From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-03-26T10:11:14+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygem goes too fuzzy

On Friday, March 26, 2004, 9:24:28 AM, Florian wrote:

> If there is exactly one match with more differences than only case, 
> there should be a question similar to "Didn't find <original name>. Are
> you referring to <name>? [y]/n".

> If there are multiple matches there should be an algorithm to find out
> which ones are closest to the original input and something like this
> should be displayed:

> "Didn't find <original name>. There were however multiple gems with 
> similar names:

> 1. <closest match>
> 2. <next closest match>
> 3. <close match>
> 4. <not so close match>"

> Any comments, better ideas or new iterations of this one? :)

Good comments.  It has been discussed without objection on the
rubygems list, and one of us will probably try to have it implemented
in the nearish future.

Cheers,
Gavin