[Rubygems-developers] Another plug for Simon's patch

[Jim Weirich]

David A. Black said:
> In any case, > x by itself doesn't/shouldn't
> have any implications beyond > x.

How about a syntax like this ...

  require_gem 'log4r', "1.*"

It would match any version 1.0, 1.1, 1.5.4.3.5, etc.  But version 2.0
would not match.

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