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Feature #16824

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Follow RubyGems naming conventions for the stdlib

Added by shan (Shannon Skipper) almost 4 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:98098]

Description

It's been really nice that most gems these days follow the RubyGems naming convention, so you know exactly what to require just from seeing the gem name: https://guides.rubygems.org/name-your-gem/

I wonder if it would be possible to add aliases for parts of the stdlib that don't follow the convention for Ruby 3.0. I was thinking maybe shims like lib/optionparser.rb, which just does a require_relative of lib/optparse.rb. The following files are what I'd expect, given the namespaces.

new file:   file_utils.rb
new file:   getopt_long.rb
new file:   ip_addr.rb
new file:   open_struct.rb
new file:   open_uri.rb
new file:   option_parser.rb
new file:   p_store.rb
new file:   r_doc.rb
new file:   secure_random.rb
new file:   t_sort.rb
new file:   weak_ref.rb

Eventually the old name could be the shim and new one actually contain the code on the path to deprecating old names in some future Ruby.

Anyway, I just wanted to put the suggestion out there to adopt naming conventions for the stdlib as it's gemified. Ruby 3 seems like a nice time. :)

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