[Rubygems-developers] Config clash

[Gavin Sinclair]

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:33:09 -0400 (EDT), Gavin Sinclair
> <gsinclair at soyabean.com.au> wrote:
>> I've just dicovered an anti-social behaviour of RubyGems.  I'm mucking
>> around with 'acoc' (look on RAA).  It defines a class called Config:
>
> mmm. I think that this is really a problem with acoc. It is still
> developed (last update 2004/04/05). acoc shouldn't be creating a class
> "Config", it should be doing something like:
>
> module Acoc
>   class Config < Hash; end
>   :
>   : # The rest of the Acoc module.
> end
>
> exit Acoc.run(...)
>
> This is the sort of thing that RPA will be good at handling.


I agree that acoc should do something like that.  But I don't think that
absolves RubyGems of responsibility.

Gavin