From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-23T09:12:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem Dependancies

On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:27 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> With HighLine, we've recently moved over to using termios... on Unix
> only.  I set it up as a gem dependancy and this is causing problems
> with the Window's install (and we don't even need it on that
> platform).  That leads me to the following questions:
>
> 1.  Is it possible to change dependancies based on the platform?

Not within a single gem.  You could provide separate gems with different 
dependencies.

> 2.  Will a gem install still if you say no to a dependancy?

No.  But you can say: gem install highline --ignore-dependencies

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