On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Trans wrote: > > > On Dec 23, 6:26 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote: >> 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. > > If all you want is gem command plugins, then why not just route `gem > foo` to `gem-foo`? Then there would be zero lookup overhead.
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