From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T22:38:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> > Any gem should FULLY list all of its dependencies it requires to
> > work (defined broadly by rubygems but could be summarized as
> > "something mentioned by 'require'"). That would include rake if you
> > have a Rakefile.
> I don't agree with that.

I didn't used to. Now, as I get back into Ruby development, I will be
ensuring that the Rakefiles that I use to deploy software are also
included with my gems because of idempotency. Mauricio convinced me of
the value of that.

What we *need* to resolve this is recommended dependencies; currently,
RubyGems dependencies are mandatory if present. Hoe should be a
recommended, but not mandatory, dependency.

-austin
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