From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-01-12T14:43:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census

But the question is would the hoe developers use this?  They seem
fairly stuck on this whole idempotentence kick.

--Jeremy

On 1/11/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> > interact with the gem on a meta-level will need hoe.
> >
> > 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)
>
> Dan, Excellent approach.  I'd love to see this.
>
>


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