From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2007-01-11T06:41:54+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Tattle - The Ruby Census Eric Hodel writes: > Directing complaints at Hoe is the wrong target. Directing feature > requests and/or patches at RubyGems is the right target. In the mean time, you can circumvent this for your own gems like this: begin require 'hoe' rescue LoadError # replacement tasks, if any else hoe = Hoe.new(...) do |p| p.extra_deps = [] # or only your deps. end end I request to keep this behavior, intentional or not. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org