[ruby-core:29645] Re: [Bug #1085] Got the error message, after run 'gem install --test'.

On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:54, Yusuke ENDOH wrote:
> 2010/4/19 Ryan Davis <[e-mail]>:
>> All pigheadedness aside, why is it is a bug that rubygems doesn't =
work with minitest when it isn't a bug that it doesn't work with bacon, =
rspec, and every other test framework under the sun? Since ruby doesn't =
have a real standard project layout and a unified testing setup (like =
the way perl does), it isn't reasonable to expect that rubygems' =
"--test" flag be able to work with project and their =
tests/specs/stories/whatever-we-come-up-with-nexts.
>=20
>=20
> I guess that rubygems' "--test" flag was created in consideration of
> test/unit.  And actually, the old test/unit had provided "passed?"
> before it was replaced with minitest.
>=20
> I can understand you if test/unit compat layer of minitest provides
> "passed?".  If it does so, I think this is a fault of rubygems that
> uses minitest but not test/unit.

I think it would be better to remove --test from RubyGems since it can't =
work everywhere. =20

If the community finds it important they can implement it using a gem =
plugin.  It is too hard for me to make RubyGems support every possible =
test library and it is too hard to get every possible test library to =
support a common API.=