From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T06:25:02+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 8:20 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?

Only by pretending to be an extension that cheats and uses a
makefile/rakefile to build. I would prefer not to have gems execute
arbitrary code on installation.

-austin
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