From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T23:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:15 AM, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:

> 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".

We would use that if available too, yes.  ;)

HighLine does work without termios, just not as well.  So, in this  
case, a recommended or platform dependency would help.

James Edward Gray II