From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2007-01-12T23:04:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census On 1/12/07, Jeremy McAnally wrote: > But the question is would the hoe developers use this? They seem > fairly stuck on this whole idempotentence kick. I'm pretty sure that one of the messages in the last ~90 or so indicated that were optional dependencies available, hoe would use it. It wouldn't help for anyone who already has hoe-generated gems, of course. You may not realize it, but you want idempotence, too. One of the things that can be done with an idempotent gem is that you can validate a gem on a development server, and then you can repackage and redeploy that gem on a production server without redownloading it from the original site. There's still some work to be done on RubyGems to make this truly possible without hacks (local installs don't really handle dependencies well, plus a few other things), but without idempotence, you're not guaranteed to have everything you need to do that. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca