From: Judson Lester Date: 2008-02-06T05:28:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Why gem built with hoe depends on hoe? On Feb 2, 2008 6:51 AM, Tim Pease wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008 6:20 AM, pluskid wrote: > You should look at Mr Bones. It does the same thing as hoe, but > without the viral dependency. > > sudo gem install bones On a related note, I wanted to share my own methodology. I've got a Monotone branch that I use as the basis of my projects, which includes some starting directories, a Rakefile and a gemspec.rb. As I discover variations and improvements, or adapt to updates of rubygems or rake, I update the project and propagate them automatically out to all the projects based on the branch. I've got a couple of tricks that I yionked from hoe in there, and I expect I'll take a gander at Mr Bones as well. Advantages: - No extra dependencies in the eventual gems. - Improvements to the skeleton can be propagated to projects - without destroying local tweaks for the projects - I have my own control over how I use rake, rubygems, etc. I suppose there's the disadvantage that it ties me to monotone. I suspect (but am not sure) that a similar thing could be accomplished with git, but probably not with subversion. Judson -- Your subnet is currently 169.254.0.0/16. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.