From: Jeremy Henty Date: 2007-01-11T02:50:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census On 2007-01-10, Eric Hodel wrote: > By "build" I mean work on, not compile. ZenTest is a build-time > dependency for some of my gems because I use its assertion library > when I'm building (adding features to or fixing bugs in) that gem. Just a terminology nitpick, but it sounds like you're talking about *development* dependencies rather than build dependencies. Rather like the way many projects require extra dependencies if you build from a checkout instead of a tarball. Does that clarify or obscure? Regards, Jeremy Henty