From: Chad Fowler Date: 2005-07-07T00:46:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby under Cygwin problems On 7/6/05, Aredridel wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 23:18 +0900, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > > Lothar Scholz writes: > > > > > i don't have a problem with writing "require 'rubygems'" on the first > > > line. I wouldn't add a rescue clause as i think it's a valid option to > > > force a user to have rubygems installed as some of the requirements of > > > your library. > > > > If you decide to go this way, please make sure you also publish your > > software as a gem only, so they won't even have the slightest chance > > to have a look at the code and determine whether it would be > > reasonable to dig it out. > > Heartily, heartily seconded. That way, if someone who works on a linux > distro like Fedora, PLD or Debian should want to package software that > uses your library, or to package your library, so that it "Just works" > for their users, they'll give up. That way nobody accidentally makes it > easy to install. > > > > What is your _suggestion_? Does anyone have anything productive to add? -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 500,000 gems served!)