From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-04-02T06:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] hoe 2.9.2 Released


On Apr 1, 2011, at 06:18 , Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:

> Excellent work as always Ryan.
> One thing:
> rake package (and by extension rake install_gem, rake release) does not respect the Manifest.txt when it comes to the test/ directory.
> All test_* files are included in the gem wether or not they are specified in Manifest.txt
> 
> This is a bit counterintuitive. It might be my personal way, but I have a bunch of tests for functionality that I do not yet want in the gem. This kinda throws a wrench in the works.

Huh. I'd never seen that before, nor thought about it. That's really not a use-case I want to support. Good projects include their tests so users have access to them and that is encouraged by Hoe (although, admittedly, inadvertently on Hoe's part).

Why do you want to exclude some of your tests?