[Rubygems-developers] [Fwd: Re: R: rubygems undefined method'loaded_from=' for nil::NilClass]

[Jim Weirich]

>> # One question ... Why are the gemspecs in the specification directory
>> # stored as ruby source.  I would have thought that YAML would be a more
>> # appropriate choice in this area.  Is it worth changing?

Richard Kilmer said:
> They are stored as Ruby source so that a runtime user of RubyGems does not
> need to load YAML in order to use libraries.  If they are YAML, you have
> to load it and the native SYCK parser.  That is a lot to ask of someone
> who just wants to load libraries...that is the thinking anyway.

Ok, That make sense.  When I get time, I'm going to add some code so that
messed up gem files won't cause the entire gem command to fail.

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