From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-03-28T05:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems pre/post install

On Mar 25, 2007, at 09:48, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 3/25/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Trans wrote:
>> > Does RubyGems support pre/post install scripting?
>> nope.
>
> And with, I think, very good reason. There are times when, in the
> past, I wished it did, but aside from one loophole, there's no way to
> get a gem to execute arbitrary code on installation.

Actually, there are two.  I'm going to remove the second one sometime  
soon.