From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-01-10T23:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

Mr Gray:
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
>> I find "recommended dependencies" a pain in the behind, as well as
>> being an oxymoron.
>
> I think there is a very real need for them.  With HighLine, we would
> love the make termios a dependency, because our libraries
> functionality is so much better on Unix with it.  Unfortunately we
> can't, since it breaks the install process on Windows.  A recommended
> dependency could help us with this.

Isn't this a case of a platform dependent dependency? The idea of
"platform" could be very general, perhaps, including things like "I'm on
a Mac, I don't want to use My SQL, but I do use SQLite".

Just a random thought - sorry if it is noise.