From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-10T05:48:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On Jan 9, 2007, at 10:42, Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> I think the question is "why is this neat tool useful only to the
>>> gem's
>>> developer required to install the gem on end-user systems?"
>>>
>>> So... why is that?
>>
>> rake test
>
> Makes sense, didn't think about that.  Still, though, gem install -t
> does the same thing and doesn't require dependencies.

This is not guaranteed to work.  Currently gems is very lax in its  
installation and doesn't rollback when you cancel on a dependency.   
In the future it may not.

> Rake is useful for more than just gem deployment.

Only if you are also developing.  If you're just using libraries, it  
is useless.

> I shouldn't need to install the rubyforge gem to install someone  
> else's
> library, but if they packaged it with hoe, I'm forced to.  This  
> doesn't
> make sense.

Same for rake, but nobody complains.

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