From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2003-12-24T02:01:53+09:00
Subject: RubyGems and dependencies

Two RubyGems questions about dependencies:

1. If I use RubyGems to document a dependency to another gem then am I
correct in thinking it's not enough to simply have had that library
installed -- I explicitly need that gem, right? I mean, Lafcadio
depends on REXML and when I try to install the Lafcadio gem it tells
me it can't find the REXML gem. REXML is already installed (I'm using
Ruby 1.8 so it's part of the std library) but I'll need to install the
REXML gem so that my Lafcadio gem will work, right?

2. Related to that: Any ideas as to where in the future you see some
sort of auto-dependency install mgmt happening?

Francis