From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T00:38:01+09:00
Subject: Re: rbgccxml / rbplusplus gem dependency on hpricot question

On Friday 15 August 2008 09:04:56 Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am having problems installing the rbgccxml gem on ubuntu 8.04, I get a 
runtime error saying that
> hpricot version=0.6 is required.

Sounds like the same problem that rfeedparser has.

The explanation I got was, 0.6.161 is probably fine, but hadn't been tested, 
and they didn't want to allow 0.6 or higher, because that would imply a 
future 0.7, which might actually break stuff.

In other words, someone very probably didn't know about the gem ~> 
specification.

Talk to the author of rbgccxml, and see if they'd be willing to 
require "~>0.6" (or would that be "~>0.6.0"?), instead of "=0.6".