From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2008-06-24T02:31:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 1.2.0

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> = Announce: RubyGems Release 1.2.0
>
> Release 1.2.0 adds new features and fixes some bugs.
>
> New features:
> * RubyGems now has runtime and development dependency types.  Use
>  #add_development_dependency and #add_runtime_dependency.  All typeless
>  dependencies are considered to be runtime dependencies.

FYI, You can include development dependencies during an install or
update with --development.

Also, a small API addition for folks doing conditional gem loading by
manually checking the source index or rescuing LoadError:

  Gem.available?(gem, *specs)


~ j.