From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-10-11T04:14:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] stickler 0.1.0 Released

On Oct 9, 2008, at 23:22 PM, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> stickler version 0.1.0 has been released.
>
>  gem install stickler
>
> http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/stickler
>
> Stickler is a tool to organize and maintain an internal gem
> repository.

Looks like a nice tool, some notes:

~> doesn't mean "Approximately greater than", it's described here:

http://blog.zenspider.com/2008/10/rubygems-howto-preventing-cata.html

but to save you a click works like this:

> 3.y.z         "~> 3.0"
> 3.0.z         "~> 3.0.0"
> 3.5.z to <4.0 "~> 3.5"
> 3.5.z to <3.6 "~> 3.5.0"

Which is clearer than my english description, "matches a version from  
the specified release up to but not including a release with a higher  
version in the second most specific dot".  (Clumsy, yes)

> found = source_specs.select do | spec |
>   dependency =~ Gem::Dependency.new( spec.name, spec.version )
> end

In a future version of RubyGems, I'm going to make Gem::Dependency#=~  
and Gem::Specification#=~ work with each other and duck type it so you  
don't have to go through that extra step.