From: Chris Carter Date: 2007-01-13T09:30:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census On 1/12/07, Austin Ziegler wrote: > 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 > > So if I were to spend this weekend getting optional/developer-time dependencies into RubyGems, would people want optional dependencies to always be prompted, only prompted when a flag is given, or never prompted? -- Chris Carter concentrationstudios.com brynmawrcs.com