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

[Gavin Sinclair]

On Saturday, June 26, 2004, 3:30:26 AM, Jim 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.


Yep, that's what I had in mind.  "Hierarchical gems" gives me the
heebie jeebies :)

Gavin