On Dec 23, 2010, at 15:12, Trans wrote: > On Dec 23, 3:33 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote: >>> If that's asking too much, then at the very least, make this patch a >>> configurable option in the .gemrc file. Power users who aren't using >>> any of the above mentioned plugins could then easily flip the switch >>> to get the speed up. >> >> We should make a release that contains this change RubyGems 2.0 as this >> changes an API. > > Not sure what that accomplishes. The usefulness of the pref switch is > backward compatibility.
RubyGems should not support mistakes. > When someone (who is unaware of all this) > comes along complaining that his plugin stopped working, you can tell > him to active the pref switch; problem solved. You mean two people. We can just email them instead. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
