From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T22:43:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> 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.

My Rakefile is included.  I just don't make rake a dependency.

> 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.

That makes sense to me.

James Edward Gray II