From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-16T02:53:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe dependencies

On Jul 14, 2008, at 03:50 AM, James Coglan wrote:
> 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.

It is RubyGems' bug.