From: Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@...>
Date: 2007-01-12T06:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 1/11/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

> How about:
>
> spec = Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
>    gem.add_dependency("something", ">= 1.2.0")
>    gem.add_optional("rspec", "Test suite only", ">= 0.5.0")
>    ...
> end
>
> And, at the command prompt:
>
> C:\gem install something
>
> Install required dependency something? [Yn]
> Install optional dependency rspec (Test suite only) [Yn]
> ...
>
> And the API would simply be:
>
> Gem#add_optional(gem, comment, *requirements)

The comment/description idea is excellent, and addresses my main
complaint with generic optional dependencies. Ship it! :-)


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Nathaniel Talbott

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