From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-05-14T02:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe and gems: How to handle deps?

"Tim Pease" <tim.pease@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/11/07, Vassilis Rizopoulos <damphyr@freemail.gr> wrote:
>> I got into using Hoe, my projects were starting to get ou t of control
>> and Hoe helps a lot in keeping everything at a sane level.
>> I just need a final bit of help with figuring out how to build the
>> various gems.
>>
>> Q1: Why does Hoe add itself as a dependency to the gem and how can I
>> remove it?
>>
>
> When a user wants to run tests on your package via "gem check -t" then
> Hoe needs to be included as a dependency so your Rakefile is usable by
> gem.
>
> Currently there is no way to remove Hoe as a dependency.

  hoe.spec.dependencies.delete_if { |dep| dep.name == "hoe" }

Be careful.
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