[Rubygems-developers] Question

[Gavin Sinclair]

> In the rubygems/installer.rb we require logger (from the StdLib) and
> create a global $log instance variable.  Does anyone know why?  We don't
> use it anywhere...was it just an idea that was dropped.  I want to
> remove it because it pollutes the namespace.
>
> Thanks,
>
> rich

Sounds like the sort of thing I'd do when debugging.  I say remove it.

Gavin