James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:
> 
>> On 3/14/07, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Alex Young wrote:
>>>
>>> > Personally, I'd prefer that a require 'gemname' just loaded all 
>>> files in the
>>> > gem's lib directory, but that's probably just me...
>>>
>>> yikes!  i've got about 80 libs installed!
>>>
>>> considering that rails, for instance, takes about 1/2 second to load 
>>> it's libs,
>>> we could be looking at __tens__ of seconds of startup delay for every 
>>> ruby
>>> script on a large system
>>
>> I think he meant the files in the individual gem's
>> lib/ruby/gems/...../gemname/lib folder, not all the files in
>> lib/ruby/gems :)
> 
> But we still don't want to do that.  Some libraries provide alternate 
> interfaces or features based on which file you require.
Oh, I realise I'm not likely to get my wish - there's too much code 
already out there that wouldn't work like I'm suggesting.

-- 
Alex