From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T19:50:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe dependencies

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2008/7/13 John Barnette <jbarnette@gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
>

I'm still getting errors trying to run my gem's command line executable
without hoe installed. I have rubgems 1.2.0 and hoe 1.7.0. If you check out
this project:

http://github.com/jcoglan/jake

Run:

rake gem
sudo gem uninstall hoe
sudo gem install pkg/jake-0.9.0.gem

It does not attempt to install hoe. However the executable won't run:

$ jake -h
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error':
Could not find RubyGem hoe (>= 1.7.0) (Gem::LoadError)
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in `activate'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem'
    from /usr/bin/jake:18

(If you want run this prog, you'll need oyster. It's not released yet, but
you can get it as follows:)

git clone http://github.com/jcoglan/oyster oyster
cd oyster
rake install_gem

Best,
James

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