[Rubygems-developers] Suggestion: require_gem 'x/y'

[Jim Weirich]

Chad Fowler said:
> On 24/6/2004, at 3:29 PM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
>> I mentioned recently that my 'extensions' project doesn't have a
>> default file that gets loaded.  Thus you would have to do this:
>>
>>   require_gem 'extensions'
>>   require 'extensions/string'
>>
>> It occured to me today that this is an option:
>>
>>   require_gem 'extensions/string'
>>
> I assume this implies that you would have a hierarchical gem namespace,
> and that each one of the 'extensions' thingies (like "string") would be
> a separate gem?

I think all he was asking is that when we see:

   require_gem 'extensions/string', ">= 1.0"

That we treat it as ...

   require_gem 'extensions', ">= 1.0"
   require 'extensions/string'

No hierarchical gems required.

If it really is that simple, then I have no problem with it.

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