From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-11T00:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On Jan 10, 2007, at 06:23, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Devin Mullins wrote:
>
>> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> What about a custom post-install step that said, "Blah blah blah,  
>> these are our recommended dependencies, and here's why. Would you  
>> like to `gem install` any of them?"
>> </na�ve>
>
> That's an interesting idea.  Does gems support post-install scripts?

It supports post-install messages, but nobody reads those, especially  
when they scroll off the screen because one package was installed as  
a dependency of another.

Instead RubyGems needs built-time and run-time dependencies.

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!