From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T06:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/10/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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.

Mmm. You need something different yet. You need a platform-specific dependency.

Maybe the dependency list on gems should be a "smart" object:

   gem.dependencies << "foo-1.0" # required dependency
   gem.dependencies.platform << [ POSIX, "termios-1.0" ]

Probably more work than it's worth ;)

-austin
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