From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T17:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/11/07, Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A thought: if code that's not used at runtime is such an issue,
> shouldn't we be stripping tests, Rakefiles and the like from our
> libraries before gem'ing them? I don't see the difference between
> those files and the hoe dependency.

No, you should ship them, but *document* rather than hard-enforce the
dependency on make. Likewise, packages that ship with both source and
a precompiled binary in the tarball don't insist that you have gcc
installed before you can install them.

martin