From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-04-08T11:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gem install instiki-0.10.0' does not pull in dependencies - why?

On Apr 7, 2005 7:02 PM, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> Oops!  I sent this message from the wrong mail account and didn't notice until
> now.  So here it is again...
> 
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> Subject: Re: 'gem install instiki-0.10.0' does not pull in dependencies - why?
> Date: Thursday 07 April 2005 07:32 am
> From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.net>
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 
> On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:20 am, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> > I have a problem with this gem (about to be released Instiki 0.10):
> > http://alexeyv.textdriven.com/instiki-0.10.0.gem
> > It has external dependencies:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > and yet, when I try to install it, it gets installed without them.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > E:\>gem install --both --include-dependencies instiki-0.10.0.gem
> > Attempting local installation of 'instiki-0.10.0.gem'
> > Successfully installed instiki, version 0.10.0
> 
> Gems has two installers, a local gems installer and a remote gems installer.
> The remote installer will download dependencies, the local installer does
> not.
> 
> This is the next big item fix on my todo list for RubyGems: the merging of
>  the two installers into a single installer that can fetch locally or
>  remotely (from more than one remote source ... another limitation of the
>  current remote installer).
> 
>

Oh, heh.  I think I looked at this one too early in the morning. ;)

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