From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T04:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe dependencies

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:47 AM, James Coglan <jcoglan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to remove the dependency on Hoe from a gem that I've used Hoe
> to create? Far as I can tell, I only need Hoe to build the gem -- the gem
> itself does not need Hoe to run so it shouldn't include it as a dependency
> to install on other boxes. Could someone let me know whether I've got this
> all wrong or whether in fact I *can* remove the hoe dependency when building
> my gem?

As of the most recent release of Hoe, it's no longer a runtime
dependency. This behavior requires RubyGems 1.2.


~ j.