From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2007-01-11T23:06:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census "Nathaniel Talbott" writes: > On 1/10/07, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > >> It is easy to write a rakefile that downgrades itself. Possible gem >> hackers will have hoe installed anyway, there is no need to declare >> this dependency. > > Yes, but in order for the Rakefile to do *anything*, rake would have > to be installed, which it wouldn't necessarily be unless Hoe is a > dependency. Why would I want to run the Rakefile if I don't have rake? The Rakefile merely provides convenience for developers. The software itself doesn't need it, and therefore it's not a real dependency. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org